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Improve your lifestyle: modal verbs 'müssen', 'dürfen', 'wollen' + infinitive

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I can recognise how modal verbs are used to express what people want, must or can do, in positive and negative statements.

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[ü] is pronounced long as in 'Tür' or short as in 'fünf'. Modal verbs express ideas of necessity or possibility (must, can, want). Modal verbs are used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, which goes to the end of the sentence (two-verb rule). Modal verbs include ‘müssen’ - to have to, must; ‘dürfen’ - to be allowed to, may; ‘wollen’ - to want to. Put 'nicht' before an infinitive ('Ich muss nicht singen') but forms of 'kein' before nouns ('Er will kein Buch lesen').

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