Bernays'' Compendious German Grammar: With a Dictionary of Prefixes and Affixes, and With Alterations, Additions, and References to an "Introduction to the Study of the German Language" (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bernays' Compendious German Grammar: With a Dictionary of Prefixes and Affixes, and With Alterations, Additions, and References to an "Introduction to the Study of the German Language"

IT is a general complaint of large grammars, that they are too dif fiise; and of the small, that they are too abrupt and incomplete. The former are for the most part incumbered with arguments and far fetched illustrations, displaying the learning of their authors, but per pleaing rather than instructing the learner; while those which are called practical, appear short, more in consequence of omission than of condensation.

I now place this little work before the Public, with the wish that most of those who study the German language may derive benefit from what originally was designed to assist only a few persons in private. The book, notwithstanding the smallness of its size, contains all which belongs to the province of grammar, and which a student may require, till he is able to peruse native grammarians. It is particularly hoped that the rules and tables concerning the genders and declensions will be quite sufficient to clear up this most difficult part of the language.

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