| Introduction | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Pronunciation | p. 1 |
| Vowels | p. 1 |
| Diphthongs | p. 3 |
| Consonants | p. 3 |
| Stress | p. 7 |
| Regional variants | p. 8 |
| Spelling | p. 9 |
| Indicating vowel length | p. 9 |
| Use of the Umlaut | p. 9 |
| Use of capital letters | p. 10 |
| Use of the hyphen | p. 10 |
| The new spelling | p. 11 |
| The alphabet | p. 12 |
| Punctuation | p. 13 |
| Commas | p. 13 |
| Colons with direct speech | p. 15 |
| Inverted commas/quotation marks | p. 15 |
| Exclamation marks | p. 16 |
| Case | p. 17 |
| Case endings on nouns | p. 18 |
| Other uses of the nominative case | p. 20 |
| Other uses of the accusative case | p. 20 |
| The genitive case | p. 21 |
| Other uses of the dative case | p. 22 |
| Nouns in apposition | p. 23 |
| Order of cases in paradigms | p. 24 |
| Articles and other determiners | p. 25 |
| The definite article | p. 25 |
| Other determiners inflected like der/die/das | p. 29 |
| The indefinite article | p. 30 |
| Other determiners inflected like ein | p. 32 |
| Indefinite pronouns used as determiners | p. 32 |
| Nouns | p. 33 |
| Gender of nouns | p. 33 |
| Pluralization of nouns | p. 37 |
| Diminutization of nouns | p. 41 |
| Names of towns | p. 42 |
| Names of countries | p. 44 |
| Feminizing agents | p. 44 |
| Adjectival nouns | p. 45 |
| Compound nouns | p. 47 |
| Nouns in apposition (see 4.6) | p. 48 |
| Pronouns | p. 49 |
| Personal pronouns | p. 49 |
| Possessives | p. 58 |
| Reflexive pronouns | p. 60 |
| Demonstrative pronouns | p. 63 |
| Interrogative pronouns | p. 63 |
| Relative pronouns | p. 64 |
| Indefinite pronouns | p. 69 |
| Adjectives | p. 75 |
| Rules for inflection | p. 76 |
| The der/die/das (weak) endings | p. 76 |
| The ein/eine/ein (mixed) endings | p. 76 |
| The unpreceded adjectival (strong) endings | p. 77 |
| Adjectival endings after indefinite pronouns | p. 78 |
| Indeclinable adjectives | p. 78 |
| Comparative of adjectives and adverbs | p. 79 |
| Superlative of adjectives and adverbs | p. 81 |
| Predicate adjectives followed by a prepositional object | p. 83 |
| Adverbs | p. 86 |
| Adverbs that are also adjectives | p. 86 |
| Comparative and superlative of adverbs | p. 87 |
| Intensifying adverbs | p. 87 |
| Adverbs of time | p. 88 |
| Adverbs of place and direction | p. 100 |
| Adverbs of manner and degree | p. 102 |
| Interrogative adverbs | p. 102 |
| Verbs | p. 105 |
| Formation of tenses | p. 106 |
| The present tense | p. 106 |
| The future tense | p. 111 |
| The imperative | p. 113 |
| The imperfect tense | p. 115 |
| The perfect tense | p. 120 |
| The pluperfect tense | p. 127 |
| The future perfect tense | p. 128 |
| The conditional tense | p. 128 |
| The conditional perfect tense | p. 129 |
| Modal auxiliary verbs | p. 131 |
| Double infinitive constructions | p. 135 |
| Modals used with perfective infinitives | p. 138 |
| The subjunctive | p. 138 |
| The subjunctive I | p. 139 |
| The subjunctive II | p. 141 |
| The passive | p. 145 |
| The infinitive | p. 151 |
| Characteristics of the infinitive | p. 151 |
| Rules for the use of zu with infinitives | p. 152 |
| Use of um...zu before infinitives | p. 153 |
| Double infinitive constructions (see 10.2.1) | p. 154 |
| The infinitive used as a noun | p. 154 |
| Participles | p. 154 |
| Present participles | p. 154 |
| Past participles | p. 155 |
| Use of present and past participles in extended adjectival phrases (see 7.6.4) | p. 155 |
| Progressive tenses | p. 156 |
| Reflexive verbs | p. 157 |
| Verbal prefixes | p. 157 |
| Verbs with separable prefixes (separable verbs) | p. 157 |
| Verbs with inseparable prefixes (inseparable verbs) | p. 159 |
| Verbs with variable prefixes (separable or inseparable verbs) | p. 160 |
| Verbs followed by prepositional objects | p. 161 |
| Use of prepositional adverbs before subordinate clauses | p. 169 |
| Transitive and intransitive verbs | p. 170 |
| Use of sein and lassen with intransitive verbs | p. 171 |
| Intransitive verbs and the passive | p. 172 |
| List of irregular verbs | p. 172 |
| Alphabetical list of irregular verbs | p. 178 |
| Conjunctions | p. 183 |
| Coordinating conjunctions | p. 184 |
| Subordinating conjunctions | p. 185 |
| Conjunctions introducing infinitive clauses | p. 192 |
| Correlative conjunctions | p. 193 |
| Prepositions | p. 195 |
| Prepositions that take the accusative case | p. 196 |
| Prepositions that take the dative case | p. 199 |
| Prepositions that take both the accusative and the dative case | p. 207 |
| Prepositions that take the genitive case | p. 210 |
| Contraction of prepositions with the definite article | p. 213 |
| How to translate 'to' into German | p. 214 |
| Numerals | p. 217 |
| Cardinal numerals | p. 217 |
| Ordinal numerals | p. 215 |
| Fractions | p. 221 |
| Arithmetic/calculation | p. 222 |
| Age | p. 222 |
| Money | p. 223 |
| Telling the time | p. 223 |
| Dates | p. 225 |
| Weights | p. 226 |
| Measurement | p. 227 |
| School marks/grades | p. 228 |
| Negation | p. 230 |
| Position of nicht (not) and nie(mals) (never) | p. 230 |
| Notes on negatives | p. 232 |
| Common German abbreviations | p. 237 |
| List of countries, inhabitants and adjectives/languages | p. 238 |
| Index | p. 252 |
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