Transcript command form

Brothers Grimm Fairytales
You probably know that the original Brothers
Grimm Fairytales didn’t have the same sort of
child-friendly happy endings as the Disney
versions. But it’s not because Jacob and Wilhelm
were a pair of perverts eager to write about child
abuse. When they set out to produce the twovolume first edition of their Kinder- und
Hausmarchen (Children’s and Household Tales)—
published in 1812 and 1815—the brothers
viewed themselves not as authors or even really
editors, but as collectors and literary historians.
The original intent of the project was to record
and anthologize the oral tradition in Germanspeaking countries at the start of the 19th
century. The Grimms were scholars, working
primarily at their desks, who relied on friends and
informants and the occasional written document
to source the folklore that had been passed down
for generations. Although they added clear
transitions where necessary to complete the
tales, for the most part the Grimms stayed as
true to the original sources as possible. We
rounded up some of the more surprising aspects
of the first edition that were later cleaned up or
scrubbed from the text altogether.
1.
They got a lot longer.
2.
Birth mothers become stepmothers
3.
Rapunzel doesn’t get pregnant
4.
The fairies get recast
5.
Some stories are cut altogether
Wort des Tages
Objective
• Students will be able to use the command
form to give commands to each other.
Order of Events
1. Collect HW
2. Introduce the command form Pg. 252-253
Command Form
• To form commands in English, the speaker
simply takes the infinitive without “to,” e.g.,
“go,” “run” or “write.” In German, the familiar
command form in the singular is constructed
by eliminating the en from the infinitive, i.e.,
by maintaining the stem. In German,
commands (imperative sentences) are always
followed by an exclamation point.
Command Form
• Informal Command
Ex.
Geh!
Schreib!
Setz dich!
Komm hier!
Mach schnell!
Lies das Buch!
Command Form
Plural Command Informal
• When you address more than one person, the
familiar (plural) form is as follows:
Kommt zu Peter rüber! Come over to Peter!
Spielt im Park! Play in the park!
It is helpful to remember that the familiar plural
command is the same as the ihr-form but w/out ihr.
Command Form
• Note: Familiar commands of verbs with stem
vowel changes e to ie are formed by
eliminating the verb ending from the du-form.
Ex.
essen-Iss!
sprechen – Sprich!
geben – Gib!
helfen – Hilf!
lesen – Lies!
sehen – Sieh!
Command Form
• Formal Command
The singular and the plural formal command are
formed by inverting subject and verb.
Ex.
Sprechen Sie deutsch, bitte!
Hören Sie die Musik!
Command Form
• You will notice right away that this formation
is identical to the construction of a question.
There is, however, a distinct difference
between the intonation of a question and a
formal command.
Command Form
• Wir-Command Form (Let’s)
The wir-command form is used when asking for
some action in the sence of Let’s (do
something)…!
Gehen wir! Let’s go!
Schenken wir Angelika ein Fotoalbum!
Command Form
• Command Form Used in Public or Offical
Language
Basides the common command forms already
discussed, you may encounter another
command form used mostly in legal documents
or on offical signs at train stations, airports, etc.
Bitte nicht Parken! Nicht rauchen!
Command Form Review
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3.
4.
Informal: Verb 1st and no “en”
Plural Informal: Verb 1st add “t” to verb
Formal: Verb 1st with “en” and add Sie
Wir: Verb 1st with “en” and add wir