German grammar lessons, from A0 to C2

The German course's 140 lessons, open to read without an account. Each one has its explanation, tables where German needs them (cases, endings, verb forms) and practice questions; in the app it's taught step by step with audio and reviewed on later days.

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Good places to start

• A0 · The alphabet and the vowels
  German letters, long and short vowels, and the umlauts ä, ö, ü
• A0 · sein: to be
  bin, bist, ist, sind, seid for names, origin, jobs, age and descriptions
• A0 · der, die, das: gender and articles
  Every noun is masculine, feminine or neuter: learn it with its article
• A0 · The verb comes second
  In a German statement the verb is always in position 2
• A1 · The accusative: den, einen, keinen
  The direct object takes the accusative, and only masculine nouns show it: der → den, ein → einen.
• A1 · Separable verbs: anrufen, aufstehen
  Ich rufe dich an: the prefix of a separable verb goes to the end.
• A1 · Modal verbs: können, müssen, wollen, dürfen, sollen
  can, have to, want to, may, should: the modal is second and the infinitive goes to the end.
• A1 · Talking about the past: the Perfekt with haben
  Ich habe gespielt, ich habe gegessen: haben + participle at the end
• A2 · Two-way prepositions: wo? or wohin?
  in, an, auf and six more: dative for where something is, accusative for where it goes
• A2 · Adjective endings after der, die, das
  After the definite article an adjective ends in -e or -en
• A2 · weil and dass: the verb goes to the end
  Giving reasons and saying what you think with subordinate clauses
• B1 · Relative clauses: der, die, das, den
  Describe a person or thing with a whole clause: the man who…, the book that…
• B1 · The passive: wird gebaut, wurde gebaut
  Focus on what happens, not who does it: werden + Partizip II, with von for the doer.
• B1 · Konjunktiv II: wishes and unreal conditions
  wenn ich… wäre, hätte, würde: talk about what isn't true but could be, and give advice.
• B2 · Konjunktiv I: reporting what someone said
  Use Konjunktiv I (er sei, sie habe, man wisse) to report other people's words neutrally, as newspapers and reports do.
• C1 · Particle combinations: doch mal, ja wohl, schon, denn, bloß
  How particles combine, in what order, and the tone they give: encouragement, indignation, reassurance, desperation, warning.
• C2 · Long compounds: building, reading and splitting them
  How German compounds work: the last part decides, linking -s- and -n-, reading from the right, and hyphens.

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