Checkpoint · A1

Checkpoint: Sounds, Gender, the Plural, the Article, and the Present

49 questions · 196 marks available · pass mark 60%

This paper covers Sounds, Spelling, and the Capital Letter, Nouns I — Gender, Nouns II — The Plural, The Article, and the Article That Is Not There and The Present Tense, and Verb-Second. Marks follow the JEE scheme: +4 for a correct answer, −1 for a wrong single-correct or matching answer, partial credit on multiple-correct questions, and −2 there if any wrong option is chosen. Integer answers are never marked negative.

Question 1 of 49Examination — answers are shown at the end

Q1 · one option correct

das Buch has the plural die Bücher. What happens to the ch between the two?

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Sources

  • GrammarDurrell, Martin, Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 5th edn. London: Routledge, 2011. — §23.1 and §23.4 (pp. 502–512) on the sounds and spellings examined from section 01; §1.1 with Tables 1.1–1.2 (pp. 1–8) on gender; §1.2.1 (pp. 14–18) on the plural; §4.1–§4.8 (pp. 64–75) on the definite, indefinite and zero article.
  • ProvenanceComposed for this course. — The two reading passages, each cited again in its own footer.