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C1 German Grammar: Extended Participial Attributes

Understand and form complex German participial attributes used in formal and academic texts.

Explanation

Read first, then practise

Erweiterte Partizipialattribute

German can compress relative clauses into attributes placed before a noun: die Ergebnisse, die gestern veröffentlicht wurden becomes die gestern veröffentlichten Ergebnisse.

Partizip I usually has an active, simultaneous meaning; Partizip II often expresses a completed or passive meaning. The entire attribute receives the adjective ending required by the article, gender, number and case.

Exercise 1

Complete questions 1–5.

C1 German Grammar: Extended Participial Attributes

Explanation

Erweiterte Partizipialattribute

Exercise 1

Replace the relative clause correctly: 'die Studie, die kürzlich veröffentlicht wurde'.

Choose the active simultaneous meaning.

Choose the correct accusative phrase.

Expand 'die noch zu klärenden Fragen'.

Choose the correct dative plural form.

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