Complete A1 German Grammar
Twenty-one structured lessons with clear explanations, practical examples, exercises and answer keys.
Personalpronomen
Learn how German personal pronouns change in the nominative, accusative and dative cases.
02Verbkonjugation im Präsens
Understand regular and common irregular verb endings in German present-tense sentences.
03Einfacher Satzbau
Master the essential German main-clause pattern and the verb-in-position-two rule.
04W-Fragen
Ask for people, places, time, reasons, directions and information using German question words.
05Ja–Nein-Fragen
Build German questions that can be answered with ja or nein.
06Adjektive mit sein
Describe people, objects and situations with common German adjectives after sein.
07Artikel im Deutschen
Learn definite, indefinite and negative articles in the nominative, accusative and dative cases.
08Konjunktionen: und, oder, aber
Join ideas, offer choices and express contrast without changing German word order.
09Begründungen mit denn, weil und da
Explain reasons and control German word order with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
10Modalverben
Use können, müssen, dürfen, sollen, wollen, mögen and möchte in German sentences.
11Trennbare Verben
Learn how prefixes separate in the present tense and combine in infinitive and perfect forms.
12Wechselpräpositionen
Choose accusative for direction and dative for location with an, auf, in, neben, über, unter, vor and zwischen.
13Präpositionen mit Dativ
Use aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von and zu correctly with dative articles.
14Das Pronomen „man“
Use the indefinite pronoun man for general statements, rules and common experiences.
15Die Uhrzeit
Ask for and express spoken and official clock times in German.
16Welch- und dies-
Ask which and point to this/these using endings that follow the definite-article pattern.
17Zeitadverbien
Organize routines and stories with zuerst, dann, danach, später and zum Schluss.
18Possessivartikel
Express ownership with mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer and Ihr in different cases.
19Präteritum von haben und sein
Use hatte and war naturally in spoken and written German.
20Das Perfekt
Build the spoken German past with haben or sein and the past participle.
21Der Imperativ
Give instructions, requests and advice using the du, ihr and Sie imperative forms.
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