ab initio German Paper GeA1 2004 (B)

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Read through the text carefully. Your task is to translate the five sentences below into German. You can glean some vocabulary for the translation from the text, and we have marked five such words in bold - you should find the rest by careful reading of the text. There is one annotation for each sentence which gives further hints about the particular grammar point tested in that sentence. Make sure you adjust the vocabulary from the text grammatically to your translation, for example, adjust singulars and plurals, adjectival endings and so on.

2 (b) Translate the following sentences into GERMAN:

(i) In using language people adapt their way of speaking to different social situations.

(ii) The debate about the growing number of English loan words in German has been going on for some years now.

(iii) It should be said that few Germans speak standard German.

(iv) A century ago, some adjectives were in use which are now completely old-fashioned.

(v) We know that many people think that the changes in the German language are problematic.

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