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Some learners count <em>m\u00f6chten<\/em> as an informal seventh, though it's technically the subjunctive form of <em>m\u00f6gen<\/em>.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-use-and-conjugate-modal-verbs-in-german\/#faq-question-1787221721303","position":4,"url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-use-and-conjugate-modal-verbs-in-german\/#faq-question-1787221721303","name":"Can you give some example sentences with German modal verbs?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, for instance: <em>Ich kann Deutsch sprechen<\/em> (I can speak German), <em>Wir m\u00fcssen jetzt gehen<\/em> (We have to go now), and <em>Du darfst hier nicht rauchen<\/em> (You're not allowed to smoke here).","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63082"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87927,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63082\/revisions\/87927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}