Prepositions are words (e.g. below, before, upon) that tell location, time, or movement. Prepositional prefixes are word parts (e.g. sub-, pre-, ultra-) that tell location, time, or movement.

The object of a preposition is always a noun or a pronoun, or perhaps one or two of each. (A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun, such as him for Raymond, it for hotel, and so forth.)

Prepositions of place in Spanish, LAS PREPOSICIONES DE LUGAR, are words like “Sobre” (on) and “Debajo” (under) that are normally used to indicate the location of one object in relation to another.

Greek Prepositions The preposition together with its object is called a PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE. The original or core meaning of Greek prepositions often indicates DIRECTION.

39 prepositions

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one article

Greek has three different definite articles – ο, η, and το (o, i, to, “the”) for the masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, respectively. An article defines a noun and it needs to always “agree” with it in gender, number, and case.

Attic Greek has a definite article, but no indefinite article. Thus ἡ πόλις (hē pólis) “the city”, but πόλις (pólis) “a city”. The definite article agrees with its associated noun in number, gender and case. The article is more widely used in Greek than the word the in English.

< Ancient Greek‎ | Basic Nouns. The first declension consists primarily of feminine nouns, with a few masculines. It is characterized by the recurrence of the letter alpha, and for this reason it is often referred to as the alpha declension, although the alpha was often changed to eta in the Attic dialect.

The second declension, in contrast to the first, consists primarily of masculine and neuter nouns. It is occasionally referred to as the ο-declension, because of the recurrence of the vowel omicron. As in the first declension, the declension remains identical in the nominative, vocative, and accusative of the dual.

The Lesson at a Glance The nouns you have learned so far have all been second declension nouns. In this lesson you are introduced to nouns that use a different set of endings called first declension endings. Most first declension nouns are feminine, but a few are masculine.

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Declension (other than for number) becomes most obvious in English when looking at pronouns. For example, in a sentence saying that a ball belongs to a male person, with the ball in subject position, there is declension for case (possessive) and gender. The form of the pronoun, then, would be ”his”: The ball was his.

In linguistics, declension is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. The inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation.

Conjugation versus Declension conjugation describes inflection of verbs. declension, which describes inflection of anything else, usually nouns, but possibly also pronouns, adjectives, determiners, depending on the language.

Conjugation is the change that takes place in a verb to express tense, mood, person and so on. In English, verbs change as they are used, most notably with different people (you, I, we) and different time (now, later, before). Conjugating verbs essentially means altering them into different forms to provide context.

In English, the only words that are marked formally are pronouns and the “declension” of pronouns shows three cases: The subject case, the object case, and the possessive case. Examples: “I, me, my/mine” and “he, him, his.” Other words distinguish their syntactic usage within a sentence by their word position.

Most of the case endings disappeared as part of the grammatical simplification that is typical of pidgins. Eventually, a few centuries after the Norman Conquest, pidgin Old English became a creole, Middle English, the native language of most of England’s population.

There are four cases in German: nominative (subject), accusative (direct object), dative (indirect object), and genitive (possessive). Determiners and/or adjectives preceding any given noun in a German sentence take ‘grammar flags’ (a.k.a. strong and weak declensions) that signal to us which case the noun is in.

All German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. However, the gender is not relevant to the plural forms of nouns.

There are four cases in German:

• nominative.
• accusative.
• genitive.
• dative.

French is easier. And German is only slightly harder. French is considered a Category 1 Language (easiest) and German is the only Category 2 language. Technically its almost as easy as french, but because of its unique grammar and gender set up, its bumped up to being the only level 2 Difficulty.

For an English speaker, French is easier to learn than the German language due to the fact that English has a similarity to the French language and this is predominantly because of the complexity of German grammar. The French language is not solely easier to study compared to German, but much better useful.

The grammar of the French language is significantly harder than German grammar. There are several exceptions to each rule and different verb patterns in the French language, whereas German has less number of such limitations and verb patterns. Therefore German is easier to learn than French.

The Hardest Languages To Learn For English Speakers

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world.
2. Arabic.
3. Polish.
4. Russian.
5. Turkish.
6. Danish.