Pronunciation and gender -- Definite and indefinite articles -- Pronouns, plurals, and the verb sein -- Titles, locations, and interrogatives -- The verbs haben and werden and negation -- The present tense and numbers -- Direct objects and the accusative case -- Irregular verbs in the present tense -- Separable and inseparable prefixes and imperatives -- Accusative case prepositions and interrogatives -- Regular verbs in the past tense and word order -- Indirect objects and the dative case -- Irregular verbs in the past tense -- Modal auxiliaries in the present and past tenses -- The accusative-dative prepositions -- Regular verbs in the present perfect tense and more imperatives -- Genitive case, the comparative, and the superlative -- Irregular verbs in the present perfect tense and adjectives -- Past perfect, future, and future perfect tenses -- Relative pronouns -- Modifiers, adverbs, reflexive pronouns, and conjunctions -- Double infinitive structures -- Infinitive clauses -- The passive voice -- The subjunctive -- Final review -- Appendix A: The principal parts of irregular verbs -- Appendix B: Prepositions and their required cases -- Appendix C: Summary of declensions.

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