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Become a German verb virtuoso with this unbeatable reference/interactive combo!The Big Yellow Book of German Verbs with CD-ROM is the most comprehensive resource available for learning and mastering German verbs. Designed for beginning through advanced learners, this indispensable guide will help you conjugate verbs with ease, enabling you to communicate in German confidently.Inside you will find:- 555 fully conjugated verbs, listed alphabetically- Current idioms and expressions for each verb- The Top 50 verbs, with many examples of their usage in context- More than 4,200 verbs cross-referenced to their conjugation models- A handy guide to deciphering irregular verb formsIncludes exercises that helps in mastering German verbs. This book with CD-ROM includes more than 180 exercises with visual feedback on verb conjugation skills, with frequent cross-referencing to the accompanying book. It helps to review usage examples and test your knowledge of common verbal phrases and idioms.

For a speaker of German the tone of personal interaction is set by his or her choice of address pronoun. Relationships are both created and reflected in the use of du or Sie in conversation. The Emergence of German Polite 'Sie' uncovers the sociocultural and cognitive linguistic strategies that originally brought the third person plural Sie address into the German language some three hundred years ago. Although a widely proposed explanation derives Sie from anaphora for plural abstractions of address like Euer Gnaden (Your Graces) empirical corpus analysis of historical texts does not bear this hypothesis out. Based on some 1'500 tokens of High and Low German usage from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century and collected from original unedited sources, this study concludes that third person plural morphology was motivated by much broader conceptual metaphors and metonymies for sociopolitical power, pragmatic indirectness, and social discourse in early modern German-language communities.

McGraw-Hill's Big Books not only include more verbs and a better selection than their competitors, but they also provide ample contextual examples that show you how the verbs are actually used. Features include: 555 fully conjugated verbs Extensive examples illustrating basic meanings for the top 50 verbs Verb exercises Clear coverage of the unique aspects of the language's verbs And more