B2Subjunctive (Konjunktiv)20 exercises
Konjunktiv I — Indirekte Rede Gegenwart
Subjunctive I — Indirect Speech in the Present
Transforming direct statements into indirect speech in the present tense using Subjunctive I.
How the rule begins
In German there are two ways of reporting what other people have said: as direkte Rede (a word-for-word quotation) or as indirekte Rede (a paraphrased quotation). The difference is not merely stylistic — it has grammatical consequences.
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