Grammatically, what are the major differences between English and German?

Answer 1

You work it out buddy!

Here you go...

Answer 2

There are huge differences between English and German. Let's go over some of the basics by part of speech then syntax(word order).

Nouns: They change by Gender and by subject, direct object, etc (it's called case).
Adjectives: Also change by Gender and Case.
Articles: Same as the above two.
Adverbs: Don't have a natural ending like in English. They are also commonly arranged in Time, Manner, Place.
Verbs: They conjugate more fully for all 3 persons and for number.

Now the Big one:
Syntax: German has what we call the Verb Second pattern. The conjugated or finite verb usually goes in the second position. Then the other verb participles often go to the end of the sentence. Then dependent clauses send the finite verb flying to the end of the sentence.
There are also separable prefixs and other issues which NO LONGER exist in English, as well as other stuff.

Answer 3

The most obvious difference is the position of the verb: after the subject in English and normally at the end of the phrase or sentence in German. Other differences are the definite and indefinite articles, which decline in German and not in English; the use of the subjunctive, which is far more prevalent in German than English and the fact that nouns and adjectives decline in German and not in English. The composite noun exists in both languages, but in English only two nouns can be fused in this way, whereas in German it is possible to to have a word consisting of three or more nouns.

Answer 4

The first one I can tell right away is that English is a genderless language while German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neutral. The gender dictates the spelling of the following words; could be complex. Another big difference is the verb conjugation in German is extensive as opposed to the simple English one.

Answer 5

There's very little difference between English and German in the grammatic structure--the way that sentences are origanized, the way that information is presented.

What IS different is:

1. Pluralization. Nearly every letter in the alphabet is used as a pluralizer in German, in addition to umlauts.

2. Capitalization. German uses lots and lots of capitalizations, instead of simple marquee caps, like English does.

3. Tack-on words. German is simplistic; words with shaded or specific meanings are likely to be amalgamations of existing words, instead of an entirely different word, as in English. For example, a 'hospital' is a sickhaus'; most types of structures have 'haus' somewhere in the word for it.

German is fun to learn, yet difficult to pronounce if you don't start young enough. It takes a lot of energy to form all those consonants, and you must control your saliva or you will spit all over the person in front of you.