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It is heard when a speech or a lecture is read aloud, but never in normal conversation.","The aim is not to learn these sentences by heart. The aim is to understand them by eye and by ear, and to rewrite them as ordinary clauses."]},{"title":"A participle with -end","paragraphs":["A past participle can stand before a noun as an adjective: eine geschlossene Vorstellung, seine verheiratete Tochter.","German also has a present participle. It is the infinitive stem of the verb plus the suffix -end. Stehen gives stehend, standing. Kommen gives kommend, coming.","A present participle can also stand before a noun as an adjective: die kommenden Wahlen, eine dringende Sache."]},{"title":"Many modifiers before one noun","paragraphs":["English and German both use an adverb to modify an adjective: ein sehr grosser Wagen, a very large car.","German can put almost any number of modifiers before a noun. They can give time, manner and place, and the group can be long.","The first sign of the construction is a specifier followed by a word that normal speech would not put there. In Der gestern, the adverb gestern follows the specifier."]},{"title":"Find the noun, then the participle","paragraphs":["Take Der gestern von Konsul Becker diktierte Brief. Every word before Brief tells something about Brief. Find that noun at the end first.","Then find the participle. It usually stands right before the noun. Here it is diktierte.","The other words then fall into place. Normal speech puts them in a relative clause: Der Brief, der gestern von Konsul Becker diktiert wurde."]},{"title":"A reading","paragraphs":["This is a reading of extended adjective constructions, sorted by type. 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EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\n1\n\nThis unit deals with written forms of the language. They may also be heard as speeches or lectures being read aloud, but never in normal conversation. Thus you will not be expected to learn the material in the same way you learned the Basic Sentences in the previous units. But you will be expected to be able to cope with the extended adjective constructions by comprehending them visually and aurally and being able to convert the examples into main and subordinate clauses."},{"section":24002,"text":"S0. EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\np1. PRESENT PARTICIPLES\n\nEs war eine geschlossene Vorstellung.\nIt was a closed performance.\n\nSeine verheiratete Tochter wohnt in Berlin.\nHis married daughter lives in Berlin.\n\nstehen - stehend\nstanding\n\nkommen - kommend\ncoming\n\nDie kommenden Wahlen\nThe coming elections\n\nEine dringende Sache\nA pressing matter\n\nIn Unit 13 you learned to use PAST PARTICIPLES as ADJECTIVES in the attributive position:\n\nThere are also in German PRESENT PARTICIPLES formed by adding the suffix -end to the INFINITIVE STEM of the VERB:\n\nThese can also be used as ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES:"},{"section":24003,"text":"S0. EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\n2. EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\nEin sehr grosser Wagen\nA very large car\n\nDer vorbestrafte Mann\nthe previously convicted man\n\nBoth English and German use ADVERBS to modify ADJECTIVES:\n\nThere is, theoretically at least, almost no limit to the number of modifiers that can precede a noun in German. Modifiers of time, manner and place may be joined together into seemingly formidable structures. For the American, the task is simply to recognize these structures and to sort them out. The first sign of an extended adjective construction is a sequence of specifier and another specifier or modifier which clash with normal spoken sequences:\n\nDer gestern von Konsul Becker diktierte Brief.\n\nWhere we would have expected in normal speech:\n\nDer Brief, der gestern von Konsul Becker diktiert wurde.\n\nor: Der Brief, den Konsul Becker gestern diktierte.\n\nIt can be seen at once that the listener should catch all the data and apply it to the noun at the end. The reader should find the noun to which all preceding modifiers apply:\n\nDer gestern von Konsul Becker diktierte Brief.\n\nThe next element to locate is the participle. It can usually be found just before the noun. Once these elements are identified, it is no problem to fit the others into place, and, if necessary, to translate."},{"section":24004,"text":"S0. EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\n3. TYPES of EXTENDED ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS\n\nThe examples are taken from German diplomatic notes and telegrams of the 1930s."}],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Conversion Drill I","teaching":[{"title":"A past participle before the noun","paragraphs":["A past participle before the noun can be translated as a passive. Der gestern von Konsul Becker diktierte Brief is the letter that was dictated yesterday by Consul Becker.","The noun can also be translated as the object of the past participle: the letter that Consul Becker dictated yesterday."]},{"title":"Adjectives and adverbs alone","paragraphs":["Some constructions have no participle, only adjectives and adverbs. They can be translated as a relative clause with the verb to be.","One word can be an adjective or an adverb. Its use decides which. Möglichen is an adjective. Möglichst, with the suffix -st, is an adverb.","Tell the adjectives from the adverbs before sorting out the construction."]},{"title":"A conversion drill","paragraphs":["This is a drill. Each item converts a relative clause to an extended adjective construction, or an extended adjective construction to a relative clause.","Der Brief, der gestern von Konsul Becker diktiert wurde, becomes Der gestern von Konsul Becker diktierte Brief."]}],"lines":[{"number":9,"id":"fsi.de.u24.cv.1.01","source":"Seine Partei hat schon einen Posten für den Minister, der wahrscheinlich zurücktritt, vorgesehen.","translation":"His party has already set aside a position for the minister who will probably resign.","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Seine","gloss":"his new address"},{"text":"Partei","gloss":"party"},{"text":"hat","gloss":"haves (he, she, it)"},{"text":"schon","gloss":"already, before"},{"text":"einen","gloss":"a walk"},{"text":"Posten","gloss":"position, job"},{"text":"für","gloss":"for"},{"text":"den","gloss":"the"},{"text":"Minister,","gloss":"minister, secretary"},{"text":"der","gloss":"the 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The reports of incidents in the Sudetenland, increasing from hour to hour, prove that the situation has become wholly intolerable for the Sudeten Germans and thus a danger to European peace.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr3.01.m4a"},{"number":46,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr4.01","source":"Memorandum Die Deutsche Regierung ist einverstanden in den näher zu bezeichnenden Gebieten bis spätestens 25. November eine Volksabstimmung stattfinden zu lassen.","translation":"Memorandum. 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Deliver by special courier!","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr5.04.m4a"},{"number":51,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr5.05","source":"Empfangsbestätigung des Unterstaatssekretärs hierher.","translation":"Confirmation of receipt from the Undersecretary of State to be sent here.","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Empfangsbestätigung","gloss":"confirmation of receipt"},{"text":"des","gloss":"of the French author"},{"text":"Unterstaatssekretärs","gloss":"Under Secretary of State"},{"text":"hierher.","gloss":"here, to this place"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr5.05.m4a"},{"number":52,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr5.06","source":"... Der Führer erwiderte, dass in dem an Deutschland abzutretenden Gebiet selbstverständlich die deutschen Gesetze Anwendung finden würden.","translation":"... The Führer replied that German laws would, of course, apply in the territory to be ceded to Germany.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr5.06.m4a"},{"number":53,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr5.07","source":"Angenommen: Heinisch","translation":"Received by: Heinisch","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Angenommen:","gloss":"assumed, accepted (annehmen)"},{"text":"Heinisch","gloss":"Heinisch (a name)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr5.07.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Aufzeichnung des Leiters der Wirtschaftspolitischen Abteilung","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":54,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr6.01","source":"Aufzeichnung des Leiters der Wirtschaftspolitischen Abteilung Berlin, den 28. August 1939 ...","translation":"Record by the Head of the Economic Policy Department. Berlin, August 28, 1939 ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr6.01.m4a"},{"number":55,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr6.02","source":"5) In Luxemburg soll, falls nötig, die Erklärung unseres Gesandten wiederholt werden, dass wir die Einstellung der Eisen- und Stahlerzeugung als eine mit der Neutralität Luxemburgs schwer zu vereinbarende Massnahme ansehen würden ...","translation":"5) In Luxembourg, if necessary, our envoy's statement is to be repeated that we would regard the cessation of iron and steel production as a measure difficult to reconcile with Luxembourg's neutrality ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr6.02.m4a"},{"number":56,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr6.03","source":"gez. Wiehl","translation":"signed Wiehl","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"gez.","gloss":"signed"},{"text":"Wiehl","gloss":"Wiehl (a name)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr6.03.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Die Deutsche Botschaft in London an das Auswärtige Amt","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":57,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr7.01","source":"Die Deutsche Botschaft in London an das Auswärtige Amt.","translation":"The German Embassy in London to the Foreign Office.","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Die","gloss":"the German (lady)"},{"text":"Deutsche","gloss":"the German (lady)"},{"text":"Botschaft","gloss":"embassy"},{"text":"in","gloss":"in Bonn"},{"text":"London","gloss":"London"},{"text":"an","gloss":"at, on"},{"text":"das","gloss":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs"},{"text":"Auswärtige","gloss":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs"},{"text":"Amt.","gloss":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr7.01.m4a"},{"number":58,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr7.02","source":"London, den 5. Januar 1938 A.A. eing. 6. Januar 1938 Nm. (Pol II 51) Die bereits mit Bericht vom 1. d.M. gemeldete Ernennung von Sir Robert Vansittart zum Chief Diplomatic Adviser hat in der hiesigen Öffentlichkeit allgemeines Aufsehen erregt ...","translation":"London, January 5, 1938. Received by the Foreign Office January 6, 1938, afternoon. (Pol. II 51). The appointment of Sir Robert Vansittart as Chief Diplomatic Adviser, already reported in the dispatch of the 1st of this month, has attracted widespread attention among the public here ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr7.02.m4a"},{"number":59,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr7.03","source":"Im Auftrag E.v.","translation":"By order of E.v.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr7.03.m4a"},{"number":60,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr7.04","source":"Selzam","translation":"Selzam","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Selzam","gloss":"Selzam (a name)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr7.04.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Telegramm","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":61,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr8.01","source":"Staatssekretär von Mackensen an die Deutsche Botschaft in Rom Telegramm Strengst geheim!","translation":"State Secretary von Mackensen to the German Embassy in Rome. Telegram. Most secret!","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Staatssekretär","gloss":"Secretary of State"},{"text":"von","gloss":"of"},{"text":"Mackensen","gloss":"Mackensen (Staatssekretär von Mackensen)"},{"text":"an","gloss":"at, on"},{"text":"die","gloss":"the German (lady)"},{"text":"Deutsche","gloss":"the German (lady)"},{"text":"Botschaft","gloss":"embassy"},{"text":"in","gloss":"in Bonn"},{"text":"Rom","gloss":"Rome"},{"text":"Telegramm","gloss":"telegram"},{"text":"Strengst","gloss":"strict"},{"text":"geheim!","gloss":"secret"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr8.01.m4a"},{"number":62,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr8.02","source":"Nr. 352 vom 6. November 1937 Berlin, ab 6. November 1937 20.41 Uhr Rom, an 6. November 1937 20.45 Uhr Botsch.","translation":"No. 352 of November 6, 1937. Berlin, sent November 6, 1937, 8:41 p.m. Rome, received November 6, 1937, 8:45 p.m. Embassy","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr8.02.m4a"},{"number":63,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr8.03","source":"an 6. November 1937 23.00 Uhr Für Behördenleiter oder dessen Vertreter persönlich Verschlussache Selbst zu entziffern Wenn Sie auf auch durch die Presse gegangenen Gerüchte wegen Deutscher Vermittlungsaktion im Fernost-Konflikt angesprochen werden, bitte ich Sie, Gerüchte als ganz unbegründet zu bezeichnen.","translation":"received November 6, 1937, 11:00 p.m. For the head of mission or his deputy personally. Classified matter. To be deciphered personally. If you are questioned about rumors, also reported in the press, concerning a German mediation initiative in the Far Eastern conflict, please describe the rumors as entirely unfounded.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr8.03.m4a"},{"number":64,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr8.04","source":"Mackensen","translation":"Mackensen","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Mackensen","gloss":"Mackensen (Staatssekretär von Mackensen)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr8.04.m4a"},{"number":65,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr9.01","source":"Der Reichsaussenminister an die Botschaft Moskau Telegramm Citissime!","translation":"The Reich Foreign Minister to the Embassy in Moscow. Telegram. Most urgent!","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Der","gloss":"Foreign Minister"},{"text":"Reichsaussenminister","gloss":"Foreign Minister"},{"text":"an","gloss":"at, on"},{"text":"die","gloss":"the embassy"},{"text":"Botschaft","gloss":"the embassy"},{"text":"Moskau","gloss":"Moscow"},{"text":"Telegramm","gloss":"telegram"},{"text":"Citissime!","gloss":"most urgent"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr9.01.m4a"},{"number":66,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr9.02","source":"Nr. 189 vom 20.8.","translation":"No. 189 of August 20.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr9.02.m4a"},{"number":67,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr9.03","source":"Berlin, den 20. August 1939 16.35 Uhr Ankunft: 21. August 0.45 Uhr Für den Herrn Botschafter persönlich.","translation":"Berlin, August 20, 1939, 4:35 p.m. Received: August 21, 12:45 a.m. For the Ambassador personally.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr9.03.m4a"},{"number":68,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr9.04","source":"Das von der Regierung der Sowjetunion gewünschte Zusatz-Protokoll kann nach meiner Überzeugung in kürzester Zeit substantiell geklärt werden, wenn ein verantwortlicher deutscher Staatsmann in Moskau hierüber selbst verhandeln kann ...","translation":"In my conviction, the substance of the supplementary protocol desired by the Government of the Soviet Union can be settled in the shortest possible time if a responsible German statesman can personally negotiate the matter in Moscow ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr9.04.m4a"},{"number":69,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr9.05","source":"Ribbentrop","translation":"Ribbentrop","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Ribbentrop","gloss":"Ribbentrop (von Ribbentrop)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr9.05.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Der Deutsche Botschafter in Wien an den Führer und Reichskanzler","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":70,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr10.01","source":"Der Deutsche Botschafter in Wien an den Führer und Reichskanzler.","translation":"The German Ambassador in Vienna to the Führer and Reich Chancellor.","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Der","gloss":"the German"},{"text":"Deutsche","gloss":"the German"},{"text":"Botschafter","gloss":"embassy"},{"text":"in","gloss":"in Bonn"},{"text":"Wien","gloss":"how"},{"text":"an","gloss":"at, on"},{"text":"den","gloss":"the"},{"text":"Führer","gloss":"the Führer"},{"text":"und","gloss":"and"},{"text":"Reichskanzler.","gloss":"Chancellor"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr10.01.m4a"},{"number":71,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr10.02","source":"Wien, den 12. Januar 1937 A.A. eing. 15. Januar 1937 Nm (Pol IV 229) Inhalt: Bilanz 1936 und Ausblick ...","translation":"Vienna, January 12, 1937. Received by the Foreign Office January 15, 1937, afternoon. (Pol. IV 229). Subject: Review of 1936 and outlook ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr10.02.m4a"},{"number":72,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr10.03","source":"In Warschau betrachtet man, wie ich aus vielen Unterhaltungen mit meinen hiesigen Kollegen feststellen konnte, die tschechische Frage nur unter dem Gesichtspunkte, wie man dieses Nachkriegsgebilde ohne die Entfesselung eines europäischen Krieges auf einen für die mitteleuropäische Entwicklung möglichen Zustand reduzieren könnte.","translation":"In Warsaw, as I was able to determine from many conversations with my colleagues here, the Czech question is viewed solely from the standpoint of how this postwar creation might be reduced, without unleashing a European war, to a condition compatible with developments in Central Europe.","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"In","gloss":"in Bonn"},{"text":"Warschau","gloss":"Warsaw"},{"text":"betrachtet","gloss":"regarded (betrachten)"},{"text":"man,","gloss":"one, you"},{"text":"wie","gloss":"how"},{"text":"ich","gloss":"I"},{"text":"aus","gloss":"out of, from"},{"text":"vielen","gloss":"many (Vielen Dank: thanks a lot)"},{"text":"Unterhaltungen","gloss":"conversation (plural)"},{"text":"mit","gloss":"sausage and sauerkraut"},{"text":"meinen","gloss":"my (accusative)"},{"text":"hiesigen","gloss":"local"},{"text":"Kollegen","gloss":"colleague (acc/dat)"},{"text":"feststellen","gloss":"ascertain, determine, find out"},{"text":"konnte,","gloss":"was able, could"},{"text":"die","gloss":"the embassy"},{"text":"tschechische","gloss":"Czech"},{"text":"Frage","gloss":"ask (I)"},{"text":"nur","gloss":"only"},{"text":"unter","gloss":"under, at"},{"text":"dem","gloss":"with the waiter"},{"text":"Gesichtspunkte,","gloss":"standpoint (plural)"},{"text":"wie","gloss":"how"},{"text":"man","gloss":"one, you"},{"text":"dieses","gloss":"this"},{"text":"Nachkriegsgebilde","gloss":"post-war creation"},{"text":"ohne","gloss":"without"},{"text":"die","gloss":"unleashing"},{"text":"Entfesselung","gloss":"unleashing"},{"text":"eines","gloss":"of a"},{"text":"europäischen","gloss":"European"},{"text":"Krieges","gloss":"war"},{"text":"auf","gloss":"in German"},{"text":"einen","gloss":"a walk"},{"text":"für","gloss":"for"},{"text":"die","gloss":"the embassy"},{"text":"mitteleuropäische","gloss":"Central European"},{"text":"Entwicklung","gloss":"development"},{"text":"möglichen","gloss":"possible"},{"text":"Zustand","gloss":"condition, circumstance"},{"text":"reduzieren","gloss":"reduce"},{"text":"könnte.","gloss":"to be able to"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr10.03.m4a"},{"number":73,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr10.04","source":"Papen","translation":"Papen","reading":null,"words":[{"text":"Papen","gloss":"Papen (von Papen)"}],"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr10.04.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Aufzeichnung des Gesandten von Bülow-Schwante, Auswärtiges Amt","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":74,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr11.01","source":"Aufzeichnung des Gesandten von Bülow-Schwante, Auswärtiges Amt (Unterhaltung während des Berliner Aufenthalts Mussolinis) ...","translation":"Record by Envoy von Bülow-Schwante, Foreign Office (conversation during Mussolini's stay in Berlin) ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr11.01.m4a"},{"number":75,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr11.02","source":"Der pazifistisch eingestellte Ministerpräsident Nitti habe die ganze Luftwaffe zerschlagen, und bei seiner Machtübernahme hätte er nur einige hundert in schlechtem Zustand befindliche Flugzeuge übernommen ...","translation":"The pacifist-minded Prime Minister Nitti had destroyed the entire air force, and when he took power he had inherited only a few hundred aircraft in poor condition ...","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr11.02.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]},{"title":"Geheime Kommandosache","teaching":[],"lines":[{"number":76,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr12.01","source":"Geheime Kommandosache Chef Sache Nur durch Offizier Von Offizier geschrieben Berlin, den 20. Mai 1938 Entwurf für die neue Weisung \"Grün\".","translation":"Secret command matter. For the chief only. By officer only. Written by an officer. Berlin, May 20, 1938. Draft of the new directive \"Green.\"","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr12.01.m4a"},{"number":77,"id":"fsi.de.u24.nr12.02","source":"... Aber auch eine solche, dem Krieg vorausgehende Spannungszeit wird durch plötzliches, dem Zeitpunkt und dem Umfang nach möglichst überraschendes militärisches Handeln unsererseits ihren Abschluss finden.","translation":"... But even such a period of tension preceding the war will be brought to an end by sudden military action on our part, as surprising as possible in its timing and scope.","reading":null,"words":null,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/course-de/fsi.de.u24.nr12.02.m4a"}],"grammar":[],"vocabulary":[],"paradigms":[]}]}