German lessons

Explore 100 free German lessons from A1 to B2. Learn vocabulary, verb forms, and grammar through complete examples and recall practice.

  1. Colors — A1 vocabulary: Learn color words through objects whose article and adjective stay visible.
  2. Numbers 0–100 — A1 vocabulary: Build prices, ages, phone numbers, and times from reusable number blocks.
  3. Family — A1 vocabulary: Introduce relatives with possessives that match the noun, not the owner.
  4. Kitchen basics — A1 vocabulary: Name tools and furniture by learning each noun with its article.
  5. Everyday food — A1 vocabulary: Use essen with common meals and foods, keeping noun gender visible.
  6. Drinks and ordering — A1 vocabulary: Ask for water, coffee, or tea with a polite quantity phrase.
  7. Rooms at home — A1 vocabulary: Locate household activities with in + dative for a fixed place.
  8. Clothes — A1 vocabulary: Describe what someone is wearing with tragen and an accusative object.
  9. The body — A1 vocabulary: Name basic body parts and say where something hurts.
  10. Weather — A1 vocabulary: Use impersonal es and fixed expressions for everyday forecasts.
  11. Days of the week — A1 vocabulary: Place routines on weekdays with am and recurring habits with bare time phrases.
  12. Months and seasons — A1 vocabulary: Organize dates with im for months and seasons.
  13. Telling time — A1 vocabulary: Ask and answer the time in both neutral and conversational forms.
  14. Daily routine — A1 vocabulary: Connect separable verbs into a realistic morning and evening sequence.
  15. Places in town — A1 vocabulary: Ask where a place is and locate it relative to a landmark.
  16. Transport — A1 vocabulary: Choose mit + dative for the vehicle and zu Fuß for walking.
  17. Travel essentials — A1 vocabulary: Combine destination, luggage, reservation, and accommodation.
  18. Classroom language — A1 vocabulary: Follow simple instructions and ask when you do not understand.
  19. Common animals — A1 vocabulary: Describe pets and farm or wild animals with clear noun genders and plurals.
  20. Greetings and introductions — A1 vocabulary: Choose greeting, name, origin, and farewell phrases for formal or informal settings.
  21. Sein: present tense — A1 verb: Master the six essential forms for identity, description, and location.
  22. Haben: present tense — A1 verb: Express possession and common states with two shortened singular forms.
  23. Werden: present tense — A1 verb: Describe becoming and learn a verb later used for future and passive forms.
  24. Gehen: present tense — A1 verb: Use a regular present pattern for movement on foot and destinations.
  25. Fahren: present tense — A1 verb: Handle the a→ä change in du and er/sie/es while keeping plural forms stable.
  26. Essen: present tense — A1 verb: Use the e→i change for du and er/sie/es in an everyday strong verb.
  27. Sprechen: present tense — A1 verb: Apply the e→i change when speaking with or about someone.
  28. Können: present tense — A1 verb: Express ability and possibility while sending the second verb to the clause end.
  29. Müssen: present tense — A1 verb: State necessity with a modal bracket and an umlaut-free singular.
  30. Machen: present tense — A1 verb: Use a regular verb for tasks, activities, and common expressions.
  31. Noun gender and definite articles — A1 grammar: Learn every noun as der, die, or das instead of guessing from its English meaning.
  32. Nominative and accusative — A1 grammar: Mark the doer as nominative and a direct object as accusative, where masculine articles visibly change.
  33. Verb-second word order — A1 grammar: Keep the conjugated verb in position two even when time or place comes first.
  34. Questions with and without a question word — A1 grammar: Put the finite verb first in yes/no questions and second after a W-question word.
  35. Nicht and kein — A1 grammar: Use kein for an absent indefinite noun and nicht for verbs, adjectives, or specific phrases.
  36. Shopping and payment — A2 vocabulary: Ask about size, price, exchange, and payment without losing case marking.
  37. At a restaurant — A2 vocabulary: Reserve, order, handle a dietary request, and ask for the bill.
  38. Giving directions — A2 vocabulary: Turn landmarks into a sequence with commands and movement cases.
  39. Hotel stays — A2 vocabulary: Confirm a booking and report room problems precisely.
  40. At the airport — A2 vocabulary: Follow check-in, baggage, gate, delay, and boarding information.
  41. Health and the pharmacy — A2 vocabulary: Describe pain, duration, symptoms, and medicine at a pharmacy.
  42. Work and the office — A2 vocabulary: Connect meetings, teams, deadlines, reports, and remote work.
  43. Hobbies and free time — A2 vocabulary: Choose spielen, machen, or a specific activity verb.
  44. Feelings and reactions — A2 vocabulary: Distinguish a state, a cause, and becoming emotional.
  45. Household chores — A2 vocabulary: Learn housework as separable verbs and fixed noun combinations.
  46. Phones and technology — A2 vocabulary: Talk about passwords, files, links, charging, and online actions.
  47. Nature and landscapes — A2 vocabulary: Describe a route through forests, mountains, rivers, and coastlines.
  48. Anrufen: present tense — A2 verb: Separate an- in a main clause and keep it attached in infinitives.
  49. Sich interessieren: present tense — A2 verb: Match the reflexive pronoun to the subject and use für + accusative.
  50. Wissen: present tense — A2 verb: State known facts with weiß in the singular and wiss- in the plural.
  51. Dürfen: present tense — A2 verb: Express permission and prohibition with darf- in the singular.
  52. Sollen: present tense — A2 verb: Report an instruction, recommendation, or expectation from another source.
  53. Sein in the perfect — A2 verb: Use sein as its own lexical participle with haben as the auxiliary.
  54. Haben in the perfect — A2 verb: Combine present haben with gehabt to describe completed possession or states.
  55. Gehen in the perfect — A2 verb: Use sein + gegangen for completed movement from one place to another.
  56. Machen in the perfect — A2 verb: Use haben + gemacht for completed regular activities.
  57. Sprechen in the perfect — A2 verb: Use haben + gesprochen for a completed conversation.
  58. The dative case — A2 grammar: Mark recipients and complements after dative prepositions.
  59. Two-way prepositions — A2 grammar: Choose accusative for a destination change and dative for a location.
  60. Modal sentence brackets — A2 grammar: Place the finite modal second and the content infinitive at the very end of a main clause.
  61. Haben or sein in the perfect — A2 grammar: Select sein for common intransitive changes of place/state and haben for most other verbs.
  62. Because and that clauses — A2 grammar: Send the finite verb to the end after weil and dass.
  63. Basic adjective endings — A2 grammar: Let the article show how much case/gender information the adjective must carry.
  64. Possessives across cases — A2 grammar: Decline mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, and Ihr like ein-words.
  65. Comparatives and superlatives — A2 grammar: Compare with -er + als and express the highest degree with am…-sten.
  66. Environment and climate — B1 vocabulary: Connect environmental causes, consequences, and responses with precise compounds.
  67. News and media literacy — B1 vocabulary: Verify a source, distinguish a report from opinion, and identify manipulation.
  68. Education and skills — B1 vocabulary: Describe training, assessment, qualifications, and learning outcomes.
  69. Housing and renting — B1 vocabulary: Discuss contracts, additional costs, defects, and handover documents.
  70. Relationships and conflict — B1 vocabulary: Describe trust, support, disagreement, and reconciliation without judging personality.
  71. Public services and paperwork — B1 vocabulary: Follow an application through form, evidence, appointment, deadline, and approval.
  72. Sein in the preterite — B1 verb: Use war- for past states and settings, especially in speech and writing.
  73. Haben in the preterite — B1 verb: Use hatte for past possession, age, and common states.
  74. Werden in the preterite — B1 verb: Describe a completed change with wurde and recognize the passive auxiliary.
  75. Können in the preterite — B1 verb: Express past ability with konnte and a final infinitive.
  76. Werden for the future — B1 verb: Conjugate werden and place the predicted action as an infinitive at the end.
  77. Würde + infinitive — B1 verb: Build hypothetical actions and tactful suggestions with Konjunktiv II werden.
  78. Werden in the present passive — B1 verb: Conjugate werden and finish with a past participle to focus on the affected thing.
  79. Perfect or preterite? — B1 grammar: Choose tense by register, verb, and narrative purpose rather than direct English equivalence.
  80. Relative pronouns and case — B1 grammar: Match gender/number to the antecedent but choose case from the pronoun’s role inside the relative clause.
  81. The genitive case — B1 grammar: Express possession and follow formal genitive prepositions such as trotz and wegen.
  82. Process passive and state passive — B1 grammar: Contrast an action in progress with its resulting condition.
  83. Adjective declension as information sharing — B1 grammar: Apply strong, weak, or mixed endings by checking what the determiner already marks.
  84. Infinitive clauses with zu — B1 grammar: Use zu + infinitive when one clause depends on another verb, adjective, or purpose phrase.
  85. Da- and wo-compounds — B1 grammar: Replace preposition + thing with damit/darauf and ask about it with womit/worauf.
  86. Order in the German middle field — B1 grammar: Arrange pronouns, time, cause, manner, and place without breaking the verb bracket.
  87. Unreal present conditions — B1 grammar: Pair wenn + Konjunktiv II with a hypothetical result, often using wäre, hätte, könnte, or würde.
  88. Connector families and word order — B1 grammar: Distinguish coordinating conjunctions, subordinators, and connective adverbs by verb position.
  89. Debate and evidence — B2 vocabulary: Qualify claims, test assumptions, and respond to objections with precise argument vocabulary.
  90. Business and economics — B2 vocabulary: Distinguish revenue, profit, costs, investment, hiring, and market share.
  91. Sein in Konjunktiv II — B2 verb: Use wäre for unreal states, wishes, and tactful evaluation.
  92. Haben in Konjunktiv II — B2 verb: Use hätte for unreal possession, wishes, and hypothetical perfect auxiliaries.
  93. Konjunktiv I of sagen — B2 verb: Report another speaker’s words while marking the information as attributed.
  94. Indirect speech and source distance — B2 grammar: Select Konjunktiv I, substitute Konjunktiv II where forms collide, and shift pronouns to the reporter’s viewpoint.
  95. Alternatives to the passive — B2 grammar: Use man, sich lassen, sein + zu, or an adjective in -bar when agentless meaning matters.
  96. Nominal style and verb alternatives — B2 grammar: Recognize dense noun phrases and rewrite them with verbs when clarity matters.
  97. Advanced logical connectors — B2 grammar: Express concession, restriction, cause, and result while respecting connector-specific word order.
  98. Participles as adjectives — B2 grammar: Condense relative clauses with present or past participles and add normal adjective endings.
  99. Relative clauses with prepositions — B2 grammar: Place the required preposition before the relative pronoun and calculate its case inside the clause.
  100. Information structure and emphasis — B2 grammar: Use the first position, cleft-like frames, and passive choice to guide attention.