Master grammar with comprehensive explanations and examples
German alphabet and key pronunciation rules
Can spell words and recognize German pronunciation patterns
Numbers from zero to ten
Can understand and use numbers in everyday situations
Numbers from eleven to one hundred
Can understand and say numbers up to one hundred
Complete first: Zahlen 0-10
Telling time officially and colloquially
Can ask for and tell the time in German
Complete first: Zahlen 11-100
Large numbers and talking about prices
Can understand and use large numbers and prices
Complete first: Zahlen 11-100
Months, seasons, and expressing dates
Can express months, seasons, and dates in German
Complete first: Zahlen 11-100
German sentence intonation patterns and word stress rules
Can recognize and produce basic German intonation patterns for statements and questions
Complete first: Alphabet & Aussprache
Personal pronouns in nominative case
Can use personal pronouns to refer to people
Complete first: Alphabet & Aussprache
This/that: dieser, diese, dieses
Can point out specific items using dieser/diese/dieses
Complete first: Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Conjugating regular verbs like heißen, kommen
Can introduce themselves using simple present tense verbs
Complete first: Personalpronomen
Conjugation and usage of sein (to be)
Can describe people and things using the verb sein
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Regular verb pattern with wohnen, spielen, lernen
Can talk about daily activities using regular verbs
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Conjugation and usage of haben (to have)
Can express possession using the verb haben
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Verbs with stems ending in -t or -d need extra -e-
Can correctly conjugate verbs with -t/-d stems
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Stem-changing verbs: fahren→fährt, lesen→liest
Can use common stem-changing verbs in conversation
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Separable verbs: aufstehen, anfangen, einkaufen
Can use separable verbs to describe daily routines
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Irregular conjugation of essen (to eat)
Can talk about eating using the irregular verb essen
Complete first: Stammvokaländerung
Using möchten to express wishes politely
Can express polite wishes and requests with möchten
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Separable verbs in shopping and daily contexts
Can use separable verbs in shopping and daily life
Complete first: Trennbare Verben
können for ability and possibility
Can express ability and ask for permission with können
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
müssen for obligation and necessity
Can express obligation and necessity with müssen
Complete first: Modalverb 'können'
Formal commands: Gehen Sie! Nehmen Sie!
Can give formal instructions and commands
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
dürfen for permission and prohibition
Can express permission and prohibition with dürfen
Complete first: Modalverb 'müssen'
Informal commands: Geh! Nimm! Lies!
Can give informal commands to friends and family
Complete first: Imperativ (Sie-Form)
wollen for wishes and intentions
Can express wishes and intentions with wollen
Complete first: Modalverb 'dürfen'
Introduction to past tense with haben + Partizip II
Can talk about past events using the perfect tense
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation, Das Verb 'haben'
Perfect tense with regular verbs: ge- + stem + -t
Can form past participles of regular verbs correctly
Complete first: Perfekt: Einführung
Perfect tense with irregular verbs: ge- + stem + -en
Can use irregular past participles in conversation
Complete first: Perfekt: regelmäßige Verben
Question words: wie, wo, woher, was, wer
Can ask basic questions about personal information
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Negating sentences with nicht
Can negate statements using nicht
Complete first: Regelmäßige Verbkonjugation
Negating nouns with kein/keine/keinen
Can negate nouns using kein/keine
Complete first: Negation mit 'nicht', Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Basic connectors that don't change word order
Can connect simple sentences with und, aber, oder
Word order when time expressions come first
Can place time expressions correctly in sentences
Complete first: W-Fragen, Uhrzeit
There is/there are with accusative
Can describe what exists in a place using es gibt
Complete first: Akkusativ: Einführung
Modal verb at position 2, infinitive at the end
Can build sentences with modal verb and final infinitive
Complete first: Modalverb 'können', Wortstellung mit Zeitangaben
Using es gibt for places and directions
Can give directions and describe places using es gibt
Complete first: 'Es gibt' + Akkusativ
Subordinate clauses with weil — verb goes to end
Can give reasons using weil with verb-final order
Complete first: Wortstellung mit Zeitangaben
German grammatical gender and der/die/das
Can use der, die, das correctly with common nouns
Complete first: Alphabet & Aussprache
Possessive articles mein/dein/sein/ihr
Can express possession using possessive articles
Complete first: Personalpronomen, Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Describing people: groß, klein, alt, jung
Can describe people using basic adjectives
Complete first: Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Using color words as adjectives
Can describe objects using color adjectives
Complete first: Adjektive für Personen
Basic plural formation patterns in German
Can form and recognize plural nouns in German
Complete first: Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Professions used without articles after sein
Can state professions without articles after sein
Days of the week and frequency adverbs
Can talk about weekly schedules and frequency
Expressing preferences with gern, lieber, am liebsten
Can express likes and preferences using gern/lieber
immer, oft, manchmal, selten, nie
Can describe how often things happen using adverbs
Introduction to the accusative case
Can use the accusative case for direct objects
Complete first: Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Mir tut der Kopf weh — dative with body parts
Can describe pain and body issues using dative
Complete first: Dativpräpositionen
Prepositions with dative: in, an, auf, bei, mit
Can describe locations using basic dative prepositions
Complete first: Genus & bestimmte Artikel
Two-way prepositions: accusative vs. dative
Can distinguish location and direction with two-way prepositions
Complete first: Akkusativ: Einführung, Dativpräpositionen
Time prepositions: am, um, von...bis, im
Can talk about times and dates using am, um, im
Complete first: Uhrzeit, Dativpräpositionen