German Grammar Guides
Plain-language guides to the parts of German that trip learners up: noun gender, plurals, cases and verb forms, written against real word-frequency data. Every table comes from the same graded lexicon the app looks words up against.
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Nouns & gender
The article a noun takes, and how it forms its plural.
- Der, die or das? How German noun gender works
The endings that predict a noun's article, the real exceptions, and how to handle the ones no rule covers.
- German plural rules
A dozen patterns, no single rule: which nouns take which, and how often each actually occurs.
Verbs
Conjugation, the tenses Germans actually use, and the awkward ones.
- German verb conjugation
Präsens, Perfekt and Präteritum: the endings, when each is used, and the haben/sein split.
- The 100 most common German verbs
Ranked by corpus frequency, with principal parts and the auxiliary each verb takes in the perfect.
- Separable verbs
Which prefixes split off, where the prefix goes, and what happens to them in the perfect.
Cases & prepositions
What each case marks, and what forces one onto a noun.
- The four German cases
What each case marks, how to work out which one a sentence needs, and the tables worth memorising.
- Wo or wohin? Location versus direction
The nine two-way prepositions, and the one question that tells you which case to use.
- German prepositions and the cases they take
Which prepositions force accusative, which force dative, which take genitive, and how to remember them.
Adjectives
The endings, and the article that decides them.
- German adjective endings
Three patterns, decided by case, gender, number and the determiner before the adjective. The tables, and a shortcut through them.
Levels & vocabulary
What the CEFR bands mean measured against a real dictionary.
- German CEFR levels, A1 to C2
What each level means in vocabulary terms, measured against a graded dictionary of 190,007 words.
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What the app is for, how it fits a wider routine, and how to work it day to day.
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How spaced repetition and quizzes from your own lists build vocabulary, and where the app fits in a wider learning routine.
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