Die Karteikarten
German flashcards
20 words a round, with the article, an example sentence and native audio on every card. Rounds are unlimited — go again as often as you like. Free, and no sign-up needed to start.
Your first German: greetings, numbers, family, food and the verbs you need to build a sentence.
20 of them per round
Start a round →Everyday life — appointments, shopping, health, and the separable verbs that make you sound natural.
20 of them per round
Start a round →Opinions and explanations: the vocabulary for saying why, comparing, and telling a longer story.
20 of them per round
Start a round →Discussion and nuance — the abstract nouns and precise verbs that arguments are built from.
20 of them per round
Start a round →Register and precision: the words that let you qualify, concede and reason like a native writer.
20 of them per round
Start a round →Signed in, Übungszeit remembers which words you found hard and works through the level with you — no round repeats what you already know, and hard words come back just before you'd forget them. Signed out, every round is a fresh 20-word shuffle from the same shelf and nothing is saved.
How a round works
- 1 · See the German.The word, its article and a speaker button. Say it out loud before you flip — that's the bit that makes it stick.
- 2 · Answer honestly.If you knew it without flipping, say so. If you didn't, say that instead — the schedule is only as useful as the truth you feed it.
- 3 · Flip and check. The meaning, the plural, and the word doing its job in a real sentence, with audio.
Prefer to read them as a list? The full glossary is on the Words page. To practise them in context, head to the Classrooms.
1003 words across five levels — all free, all with audio. You meet them 20 at a time, and you can start another round straight away.