Grammar, from the dictionary out
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 on these pages is rendered from the same graded lexicon the app looks words up against, so the rules and the numbers behind them stay honest.
12 guides · written in English
Using WunderDict
What the app is for, how it fits a wider routine, and how to work it day to day.
Nouns & gender
The article a noun takes, and how it forms its plural.
Verbs
Conjugation, the tenses Germans actually use, and the awkward ones.
- German verb conjugationPräsens, Perfekt and Präteritum — the endings, when each is used, and the haben/sein split.
- The 100 most common German verbsRanked by corpus frequency, with principal parts and the auxiliary each verb takes in the perfect.
- Separable verbsWhich 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 casesWhat each case marks, how to work out which one a sentence needs, and the tables worth memorising.
- Wo or wohin? Location versus directionThe nine two-way prepositions, and the one question that tells you which case to use.
- German prepositions and the cases they takeWhich prepositions force accusative, which force dative, which take genitive — and how to remember them.
Adjectives
The endings, and the article that decides them.
Levels & vocabulary
What the CEFR bands mean measured against a real dictionary.
Read the rule, then use it
The guides explain the patterns. WunderDict fills in the article, plural, level and examples for any word you look up, then saves it to a list you can drill.
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