Cheatsheets
German grammar cheatsheets
8 one-page sheets for the grammar you keep looking up after the course ends: which case, which ending, where the verb goes. Read them here, or get the PDF to keep on your desk.
The most useful sheets come first. English only for now.
8 sheets
- Sheet 1 · A1–B1German cases and article declensionNominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ and Genitiv: the article tables, three rules to learn, verbs with Dativ, and the mistakes learners make most often.Read the sheet
- Sheet 2 · A1–B1German word orderPosition 2, Satzklammer, Konnektoren, the Nebensatz, the order in the Mittelfeld, and where nicht goes.Read the sheet
- Sheet 3 · A1–B1haben or sein in the PerfektHow the Perfekt is built, how to form the Partizip II, and which verbs take sein, with the mistakes learners make most often.Read the sheet
- Sheet 4 · A2–B1German adjective endingsAdjective endings after der, after ein and with no article, with the mistakes learners make most often.Read the sheet
- Sheet 5 · A1–B1German prepositions by caseWhich case follows each preposition, prepositions for time and place, Wechselpräpositionen, and the common short forms.Read the sheet
- Sheet 6 · A1–B1German verb conjugationPräsens, vowel changes, modal verbs, separable verbs, Imperativ, Präteritum and a list of 60 irregular verbs.Read the sheet
- Sheet 7 · A1–B1German noun gender by endingThe endings that tell you der, das or die, the compound rule, and the nouns where the ending misleads.Read the sheet
- Sheet 8 · A1–B1German pronouns and the n-declensionPersonal pronouns, possessive articles, reflexive pronouns and the n-Deklination, with the mistakes learners make most often.Read the sheet
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