German grammar

Choose accusative articles and personal pronouns for direct objects in basic German sentences.

Choose nominative definite and indefinite articles for German nouns.

Use common German modal verbs to express ability, necessity, permission, intention and polite wishes.

Choose nicht or kein and place or inflect the negative correctly in simple German sentences.

Build German statements and questions with the finite verb in the correct position.

Use regular verbs, sein and haben in the present tense to describe actions, states and possession.

Compare people and things using German adjectives in the positive, comparative and superlative.

Choose dative articles and pronouns after common verbs and prepositions and for recipients.

Choose a possessive determiner and ending to show who owns something and how the noun functions in a sentence.

Use separable verbs correctly in main clauses, subordinate clauses, infinitives and the Perfekt.

Describe past events using the German Perfekt with the correct auxiliary and past participle.

Choose accusative or dative after in, an and auf to express destinations and locations.

Choose temporal prepositions to express when something happens, how long it has lasted, or when it starts.

Choose adjective endings according to case, gender, number and the preceding determiner.

Form and use the German simple past to describe past events, states and abilities.

Choose and position reflexive pronouns and use common reflexive verbs accurately.

Build relative clauses to identify or describe people and things.

Express wishes and make polite requests using würde, hätte and wäre.

Choose weil, dass or wenn and place verbs correctly in subordinate clauses.

You will learn to express concession and correctly form sentences with obwohl and trotzdem.