Coffee Break German CBG 2.14 | Mark hat bemerkt, dass diese Lektion schwierig ist
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Aug 21, 2017 Get ready for a little German gossip as reported speech takes center stage. Explore how to relay what someone said, using “dass” with verbs like “claim,” “shout,” and “remark.” Along the way, a detour into potatoes, smart versus clever, and tricky sentence-building keeps the grammar lively.
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Using Dass To Report What Someone Says
- German dass-clauses can report what someone says, using sagen plus a subordinate clause.
- In “Tobias sagt, dass er heute ins Kino geht,” the conjugated verb goes to the end, just as in familiar dass-sentence structures.
Keep The Present For Pending Events
- Reported speech keeps the present tense when the reported event is still pending, even if the reporting verb is in the perfect.
- “Tobias hat gesagt, dass er heute ins Kino geht” describes a cinema visit that has not happened yet.
Put The Auxiliary At The End
- A perfect-tense dass-clause places the past participle before the auxiliary, with the auxiliary at the very end.
- The reported version of “Er ist heute ins Kino gegangen” becomes “dass er heute ins Kino gegangen ist.”