Science and research

What holds these lists together

What joins these lists is less the subject than the way of talking: to assume, to demonstrate, to rule out, to say something with a reservation attached. German marks that caution in the grammar as much as in the words — soll and dürfte carry a hedge that English spells out with a whole clause — so somebody practising this category is practising a register as much as a field, and the register carries further than any one field does.

For example: die Wissenschaft (science, scholarship), die Physik (physics), die Chemie (chemistry), die Mathematik (mathematics), der Stern (star), der Himmelskörper (celestial body)

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.