KS4 · German · Year 10
Eine Nachricht: 'worum' and 'darum', genitive prepositions
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Your learning goal
I can use the compounds ‘darum’ and ‘worum’ and understand prepositions with the genitive in the context of sharing messages.
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I can use the compounds ‘darum’ and ‘worum’ and understand prepositions with the genitive in the context of sharing messages.
Key learning points
- Some verbs are followed by the preposition 'um' and the accusative case.
- The prefix 'wor-' can be added to 'um' to make a question, usually meaning 'what about' or 'around what'?
- The prefix 'dar-' can be added to 'um' to mean 'about it' or 'around it'.
- 'Darum' can also be a conjunction meaning 'therefore' or 'that's why'.
- Prepositions 'trotz', 'statt', 'während' and 'wegen' are followed by the genitive. Masculine and neuter nouns gain 's'.
Words to know
- preposition
- a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- da-, dar-
- prefix added to prepositions to avoid repetition of the noun
- wo-, wor-
- prefix added to prepositions to form questions
- genitive
- case used to indicate possession and after certain prepositions
Common mistakes
'Darum' is a da-compound and its meaning is always directly related to the preposition 'um'.
'Darum' can be used as a da-compund, meaning 'around it' or 'about it' but it is also a conjunction meaning 'therefore' or 'that's why'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Encourage students to read their dialogues from Task B1b aloud. All the grammar structures in this lesson, with the exception of 'gehen um', are Higher Tier only, so teachers of Foundation-only classes might choose to cover the vocabulary in this lesson in a different way.