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This video continues with connectors and the structure of German main clauses. This time we're talking about the time adverbs: "zuerst", "dann", "danach", "anschließend", "zum Schluss", "inzwischen", "währenddessen", und "unterdessen".
Hello everybody.
This is part 14 of our tutorial on main clause connectors.
Here you can see the first lesson. If you really want to understand the main clauses, it's a good idea to watch all the videos from the first to the last video. You will recognize patterns. After a while, everything will become much easier for you.
The course will have just over 20 videos.
Today we are talking about conjunctive adverbs of time.
In the last video you met Pierre.
Today we want to take a closer look at sample sentences from the text about Pierre.
And as always there is a quiz question at the end.
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That was not difficult, right?
Here are the time adverbs we talked about: “zuerst”, “dann”, “danach”, “anschließend”, “inzwischen”, “währenddessen”, „unterdessen“.
It is perhaps important that "dann", "danach" and "anschließend" are interchangeable.
"Zuerst" is always in the first place. Then comes either "dann", "danach" or "anschließend" and in the end comes "zum Schluss".
So you may say
„Zuerst sammelt Pierre Ideen.”
„Dann macht er ein Konzept.“
„Zum Schluss übt er.“
or:
„Zuerst sammelt Pierre Ideen.“
„Danach macht er ein Konzept.“
„Zum Schluss übt er.“
or:
„Zuerst sammelt Pierre Ideen.“
„Anschließend macht er ein Konzept.“
„Zum Schluss übt er.“
Also "inzwischen", "währenddessen" and "unterdessen" are completely interchangeable. We can say
"Pierre übt die Präsentation. Inzwischen arbeitet seine Freundin."
or
"Pierre übt die Präsentation. Währenddessen arbeitet seine Freundin."
or
"Pierre übt die Präsentation. Unterdessen arbeitet seine Freundin."
And here's the quiz question for this time. This time it's about Pierre's friend Eve.
The question is: What is the third sentence?
Here is Pierres’s friend Eve.
1. „Zuerst frühstückt sie.“
2. „Anschließend arbeitet sie.“
3. „Danach (sie - Pierre - beim Deutschlernen - helfen).“
Write the answer below in the comments.
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