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Remember that you are to conjugate weak or strong verbs in the compound past tenses with haben or sein. While a transitive verb demands a direct object in the accusative case, an intransitive verb cannot have a direct object.

Exercise 17

The following sentences with transitive verbs are scrambled. Reconstruct the complete sentences and then translate them.

gehen die wir Kirche in.

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antwortet ihr er.

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er Lehrer erwartet seinen.

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er liest Empfehlungsbrief den.

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Exercise 18

Certain verbs take the dative case and are therefore called dative verbs. The following exercise will provide you with some of these verbs.

Translate the following German verbs.

<tgroup cols="2" align="center"> <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="50%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="50%" colsep="0" rowsep="0" align="left"/> <tbody> <tr> <td><p>1. <emphasis>helfen</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>2. <emphasis>gehören</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>3. <emphasis>begegnen</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>4. <emphasis>fehlen</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>5. <emphasis>gefallen</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>6. <emphasis>glauben</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>7. <emphasis>antworten</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p>8. <emphasis>scheinen</emphasis></p></td> <td><p>________________</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> <h2>Exercise 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