Foundation: forms & cases
Foundations, articles, cases, plurals and pronouns.
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Verbs & sentence structure
Tenses, separable verbs, word order, negation and infinitive clauses.
7 decks · 55 cards · Audio in every deckEndings & prepositions
Prepositional cases, adjective endings and verbs with prepositions.
3 decks · 25 cards · Audio in every deckHard C-Test patterns
Passive, Konjunktiv, word formation, small words and advanced forms.
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Foundations
What grammar even is: word types, sentence parts, endings, and the German writing system. Everything later builds on this.
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Im Satz „Der alte Mann liest heute eine Zeitung" — welche Wortart ist „alte"?
AdjektivWelches Wort ist ein Nomen? „sie kauft brot im laden" (Großschreibung entfernt!)
brotGender & articles
Why every noun is der, die or das, how to guess the gender, and all article words (der/ein/kein/mein) at a glance.
6 cards · Audio in every deckThe four cases
German's central system: how articles and endings mark a noun's role in the sentence.
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„Die Lehrerin fragt den Schüler." — In welchem Fall steht „den Schüler"?
AkkusativWelche Frage findet das Dativ-Objekt?
wem?Nouns: plural & declension
The five plural patterns, the dative -n, and the small group of nouns that take endings of their own (n-declension).
6 cards · Audio in every deckPronouns
Personal pronouns in all cases, possessive articles (mein/sein/ihr), reflexive pronouns (sich), and the little all-purpose words man and es.
12 cards · Audio in every deckVerbs I: present tense
Regular conjugation, the vowel-changers (du fährst, er liest), the three irregulars (sein/haben/werden) and the modal verbs.
9 cards · Audio in every deckVerbs II: past tenses
The Perfekt (habe gemacht / ist gegangen), participle formation with ge-, and the Präteritum of the key verbs (war, hatte, konnte, wurde).
7 cards · Audio in every deckSeparable verbs
an|rufen, auf|stehen, ein|kaufen: when the prefix moves to the end of the sentence and how the participle is built.
4 cards · Audio in every deckPrepositions & case
The third case trigger: fixed accusative and dative prepositions, the two-way prepositions (where? vs. where to?), and the contractions im/am/zur.
7 cards · Audio in every deckAdjective endings
Adjectives after der, ein and without an article: determine endings from case, gender and number, then practise in context.
10 cards · Audio in every deckWord order & connectors
The three connector classes and what they do to the verb: und/aber (nothing), weil/dass (verb to the end), deshalb/trotzdem (inversion).
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„Am Wochenende ___ nach Hamburg." — Welche Fortsetzung ist richtig?
fahren wir„Er kommt nicht mit, ___ er muss arbeiten."
dennFor hard texts: passive, Konjunktiv, relative clauses
The structures of hard onSET texts: passive (wird gemacht), polite hypotheticals (würde, könnte, wäre), relative clauses and comparison.
12 cards · Audio in every deckNegation, imperative & questions
How to say no (nicht vs. kein), how to form commands and requests (imperative), and how to ask questions (W-questions and yes/no questions).
12 cards · Audio in every deckVerbs with prepositions
Learning fixed verb-preposition pairs with their case as one chunk (warten auf + acc) and the da-/wo-words (darauf, worauf) that replace and question them.
8 cards · Audio in every deckInfinitive clauses with zu
How to attach a second verb idea with no subject of its own: “…, zu + infinitive” and the purpose constructions um … zu, ohne … zu, statt … zu.
8 cards · Audio in every deckFuture & time expressions
How German expresses the future (usually just present tense + a time word), the Futur I with werden, and time expressions: am Montag, im Mai, seit drei Jahren, vor einer Woche.
8 cards · Audio in every deckWord formation
How German builds new words: long compounds (das Hausaufgabenheft) and derivations with suffixes and prefixes (-ung, -er, -heit, -los, un-). The key to cracking half-deleted words in the C-test.
8 cards · Audio in every deckSmall words & two-part connectors
Two-part conjunctions (nicht nur … sondern auch), indefinite pronouns (jemand, nichts, irgend-), the time triads (vor/vorher/bevor), and the means-word indem.
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„Das Hotel ist nicht nur günstig, ___ auch zentral."
sondern„Er trinkt ___ Kaffee noch Tee."
wederFine points: participles, wo/was, hätte/wäre
Participles as adjectives (steigende Preise), wo and was as relative pronouns, and the past of Konjunktiv II plus the Plusquamperfekt.
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