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Word Order Testing with "Denn" and "Weil": Did I do it right?
I'm currently working on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and attempting to learn to use "denn" and "weil" correctly. These were some example sentences I came up with, however one uses a few words that are new to me (the words for "gravity" and "effect"), so I resorted to the usually problematic Google Translate.
"I am falling because gravity is still in effect."
Ich falle, denn die Schwerkraft ist immer noch in Kraft.
"I am falling because I jumped."
I falle, denn Ich sprang.
1st Q: How do they look?
2nd Q: How would I change the sentences around if I wanted to replace "denn" with "weil"?
3rd Q: How would I change the sentences around if I wanted to start them with "weil"?
15 Oca 2019 04:50
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15 Ocak 2019
I will use your sentences to explain you the grammar. Otherwise I would use a different structure to express these sentences, but your main concern for now is the grammar, as far as I understood.
'Denn' and 'weil' may have a common level of meaning in the German sentence, however, they are used completely different. Both words are conjunctions, but 'denn' can introduce only a main clause and 'weil' only a subordinate clause. This is visible in the position of the finite verb in the sentence.
Example: Ich falle, denn die Schwerkraft ist immer noch in Kraft. --> Ich falle, weil die Schwerkraft immer noch in Kraft ist.
Ich falle, denn ich bin gesprungen. --> Ich falle, weil ich gesprungen bin.
denn belongs to the subordinating conjunctions (denn + main clause) as the following as well: aber, allein, doch, nur, oder, sondern, sowohl.
weil belongs to the coordinating conjunctions (weil + subordinate clause) as the following as well: als, bis, da, damit, dass, ehe, nun, ob, ungeachtet, wenn, wie, zumal, obwohl
15 Ocak 2019
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