German A1
Noun Gender Rules
Suffix rules, semantic patterns, and common exceptions for determining German noun gender (der/die/das).
Articles: Nominative & Accusative
Complete guide to definite and indefinite articles in nominative and accusative cases.
Negation with kein: Nominative & Accusative
How to use kein, keine, keinen to negate nouns in nominative and accusative cases.
Possessive Articles: Nominative & Accusative
How to decline possessive articles (mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer) in nominative and accusative cases.
Personal Pronouns: Accusative & Dative
Complete guide to German personal pronouns in accusative and dative cases, with common verbs and prepositions.
Dative Prepositions
Guide to German prepositions that always require the dative case, with article forms, contractions, and the dative plural rule.
German A2
Articles: Dative Case
Guide to dative articles, dative prepositions, dative verbs, and two-way prepositions (Wechselpräpositionen).
Possessive Articles in Dative
How to use mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer in the dative case.
Two-Way Prepositions (Wechselpräpositionen)
The nine prepositions that take dative (location) or accusative (direction).
Accusative Prepositions
Five prepositions that always require the accusative case: durch, fĂĽr, gegen, ohne, um.
Adjective Declension
Adjective endings after definite articles (weak) and ein-words (mixed) across all cases.
Demonstrative Pronoun: dieser
How to decline dieser/diese/dieses across nominative, accusative, and dative.
Reflexive Pronouns (Accusative)
Reflexive pronouns in accusative: mich, dich, sich, uns, euch, sich.
Relative Pronouns (Nominative)
How to form relative clauses with der, die, das as relative pronouns in nominative.
German B1
Relative Pronouns: Accusative & Dative
Relative pronouns in accusative (den, die, das, die) and dative (dem, der, dem, denen) with word order rules.
Reflexive Pronouns: Accusative vs. Dative
When to use accusative (mich, dich, sich) vs. dative (mir, dir, sich) reflexive pronouns, with the key contrast rule.
The Genitive Case
Genitive articles, adjective endings, and noun suffixes — the case of possession.
Possessive Articles in Genitive
How to decline possessive articles (mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer) in the genitive case.
Nominalized Adjectives
Adjectives used as nouns in German: capitalized but still declined like adjectives after definite and indefinite articles.
Relative Clauses with Prepositions
How to form relative clauses when the verb requires a preposition: the preposition goes before the relative pronoun and determines its case.
Indefinite Pronouns
Declension and usage of German indefinite pronouns: jemand/niemand, man/einen/einem, jeder, and etwas/nichts with nominalized adjectives.
Comparative and Superlative Adjective Declension
How comparative (-er) and superlative (-(e)st-) adjectives take normal adjective endings when used before a noun, plus irregular forms.
Strong Adjective Declension (No Article)
When no article precedes the adjective, it takes strong endings that mirror the definite article — carrying the gender and case signal itself.
Genitive Prepositions
The key prepositions that require the genitive case: trotz, während, wegen, (an)statt — plus additional genitive prepositions for B1 level.
N-Declension (Weak Nouns)
Certain masculine nouns add -(e)n in all cases except nominative singular — the N-Declension pattern, including regular N-nouns, the Herr pattern, and the Name pattern.
Participles as Adjectives (Partizip I & II)
Using Partizip I (present participle) and Partizip II (past participle) as adjectives before nouns, with formation rules and normal adjective declension.