German grammar lessons by level
Choose a topic from A1 to C1. Each guide explains a pattern with German examples, English meanings and common mistakes, then links to its interactive practice.
A1 German grammar
Sentence foundations
Build correct statements, questions, and negatives from the beginning.
Nouns and the first cases
Understand articles, noun gender, plurals, and the accusative.
Everyday verb patterns
Talk about ability, wishes, routines, requests, and instructions.
Time, place, and connection
Connect simple ideas and locate events in daily life.
A2 German grammar
Cases and prepositions
Control the case system in common descriptions and interactions.
Description and reference
Describe, compare, and refer to people and things precisely.
Past, future, and subordinate clauses
Tell connected stories and explain reasons, plans, and conditions.
Purpose, sequence, and voice
Make longer texts coherent and handle typical A2 structures.
B1 German grammar
Precision with nouns and pronouns
Handle denser noun phrases and avoid repetition.
Narrative time, voice, and modality
Tell fuller stories and change perspective or certainty.
Complex clause architecture
Express unreal past, contrast, sequence, and layered relationships.
Connected and appropriate German
Write and speak with stronger cohesion, register, and accuracy.
B2 German grammar
Complements and verb chains
Control lexical frames, infinitive actors and auxiliary placement.
Time and passive perspective
Distinguish reference time, completion, process, state and recipient.
Reporting and degrees of certainty
Attribute claims and separate inference, intention and obligation.
Conditions and logical relationships
Express counterfactual time, comparison, method and consequence.
Dense noun phrases and reference
Build participial attributes, nominal style and reliable reference.
Discourse, spelling and synthesis
Control focus, negation, particles and current punctuation.
C1 German grammar
Lexical precision and complex time
Refine case frames, predicate integration and nested verb chains.
Voice, modality and careful inference
Preserve roles and certainty across advanced transformations.
Attribution and refined clause relations
Sustain reporting and distinguish restriction, concession and cause.
Noun phrase precision and cohesion
Resolve attachment, agreement, lexical formation and reference.
Information structure and register
Organise focus, interactional stance and economical formal prose.
Orthography and cumulative production
Revise requests, arguments and reports with explicit self-check criteria.
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