Politics, society and history

What holds these lists together

These lists are read long before they are spoken: a learner meets them in a newspaper, a broadcast or a history book, and the difficulty is less the nouns than the verbs around them. unterstellen, einräumen and vorwerfen decide who is saying what about whom, and in a report that is usually the actual news. They stand apart from the office and the law because nobody needs them to fill in a form; they are needed to follow an argument somebody else is having.

For example: die Geschichte (history, story), die Gesellschaft (society, company), der Katastrophenschutz (disaster management), der demografische Wandel (demographic change), die Erststimme (first vote (for a constituency candidate)), die Pfarrei (parish (as a church district))

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.