This site is intended to provide students, readers, and translators of German with a concise and comprehensive reference grammar, one available on the web. Because we are currently writing the grammar, and work progresses chapter by chapter, the table of contents is yet incomplete. The Table of Contents references, near the end, some chapters of a short, though defective, conversational grammar, in which we color the necessary corrections. We believe the so marked grammar pages might be instructive to students of German.
Links connect to appropriate places in our comprehensive grammar.
The Duden Grammar is the continually evolving and generally accepted, comprehensive, standard grammar on which we base the Handbook. As distinguished from regional styles, the standard language is communication bearer in culture, science, politics, literature, media, school, university, church, and other public domains. The standard grammar and language are anchored in referenced and reviewed literature as it evolves. In a growing trend, the standard language is used also as spoken language. Hence, there is manifold interaction between the two.