Die Lernzettel
Short, friendly explanations of the grammar behind every exercise — what a topic is, how it works, and the mistakes to watch for. Read a guide, then practice it next door.
New guides are added regularly, and every practice set links to the ones that explain it. This library grows toward full coverage of A1–C1 German grammar.
Pronouns
Personal pronouns in German (ich, du, er, sie…)
What German personal pronouns are and how they change with the case: ich/mich/mir, du/dich/dir, and the full table for nominative, accusative and dative.
Articles & gender
der, die, das — how German noun gender works
Why German nouns are der, die or das, what noun gender means, and reliable patterns and endings that tell you which article a noun takes.
Verbs
German present tense: how to conjugate verbs
How to conjugate regular German verbs in the present tense, the endings for each person, and the common vowel-changing and irregular verbs like sein and haben.
Word order
The verb-second rule (V2) in German word order
The single most important German word-order rule: in a main clause the conjugated verb is always the second element. How to count position and move other words around it.
Verbs
German modal verbs (können, müssen, wollen…)
The six German modal verbs, what each one means, how they push the main verb to the end of the sentence as an infinitive, and how to conjugate them.
Cases
The accusative case & accusative prepositions
When German uses the accusative case, how the articles change (der → den), and the prepositions that always take the accusative (durch, für, gegen, ohne, um).
Pronouns
Possessive articles in German (mein, dein, sein…)
How to say my, your, his, her and our in German, why the ending depends on the noun's gender and case, and the full possessive table.
Pronouns
du vs Sie — formal and informal “you” in German
When to use the informal du and when to use the formal Sie in German, how the verb changes, and simple rules of thumb so you never sound rude.
Numbers
German numbers, dates and telling the time
How German numbers work (including the flipped 21 = einundzwanzig), how to say the date and days, and how to tell the time in everyday and official style.
Word order
Asking questions in German: word order & question words
The two ways to ask a question in German — yes/no questions with the verb first, and W-questions with a question word — plus the essential wer/was/wo/wann list.
Verbs
Separable verbs in German (aufstehen, einkaufen…)
What separable verbs are, how the prefix splits off and jumps to the end of the sentence, and how they behave in questions, with modals and in the perfect tense.
Verbs
The German perfect tense (haben & sein)
How to talk about the past in everyday German with the perfect tense: choosing haben or sein, forming the past participle, and where the two parts go in the sentence.
Cases
Two-way prepositions (Wechselpräpositionen)
The nine German prepositions that take either the accusative or the dative, and the simple movement-vs-location rule that decides which case to use.
Word order
Word order after weil, dass and wenn (verb to the end)
How subordinating conjunctions like weil, dass, wenn and obwohl send the conjugated verb to the very end of the clause, and what happens when the clause comes first.
Adjectives
Comparative and superlative in German (größer, am größten)
How to compare things in German: the -er comparative with als, the am …-sten superlative, and the irregular forms of gut, viel, gern and hoch.
Word order
Relative clauses and relative pronouns (der, die, das…)
How to build German relative clauses: choosing the relative pronoun by gender and case, and sending the verb to the end of the clause.
Verbs
Konjunktiv II — the German conditional (würde, hätte, könnte)
How to be polite and talk about hypotheticals in German: the würde + infinitive pattern, the key short forms wäre/hätte/könnte, and when to use each.