Recht und Gesellschaft

Understand legal texts and news, discuss rights and obligations, and use the passive with modal verbs fluently.

Module 5 of German B2 · about 100 minutes · 14 new words.

Lessons in this module

• Vocabulary — Flashcards with spaced repetition
• Grammar — Rules, tables and guided drills
• Reading — Texts with comprehension questions
• Listening — Listen, transcribe, understand
• Writing — Guided tasks with instant feedback
• Speaking — Say it, hear it, get a score
• Conversation — Real conversations, line by line
• Module quiz — Check what this module taught

Grammar in this module

• Passive with modal verbs (all tenses) — Legal and formal German combines modal verbs with the passive across every tense to express obligation or possibility precisely.
• Genitive attributes and formal noun chains — Legal and bureaucratic German strings genitives together to avoid subordinate clauses entirely.

Vocabulary you will meet

das Gesetz · das Recht · die Pflicht · das Gericht · das Urteil · der Anwalt · klagen · die Strafe · verpflichtet · die Verfassung and 4 more. Every word is stored with its article and an example sentence, then scheduled for review by spaced repetition.

Reading: Ein Fall vor Gericht. Conversation: Beratung bei einem Anwalt.

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