Learn German | German Grammar for A1

Learn German grammar and develop reading, writing, and speaking skills for the one level exam, with emphasis on grammar to support relocation and career advancement.

Learn German pronunciation rules with examples, including consonant sounds before vowels, silent letters between words, and how endings influence pronunciation; the lesson previews remaining rules for the next video.

Learn common German greetings and their English equivalents, including hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night, and formal versus informal goodbyes.

Build German vocabulary for everyday interactions, focusing on greetings and polite phrases like please, thanks, gesundheit, God bless you, and take care.

Learn German verb conjugation by removing -en to form the stem and adding endings for ich, du, er/sie/es, wir, ihr, sie/Sie, with regular type-1 verbs like gehen, kochen, schreiben, spielen.

Learn German verb conjugation type two by forming stem verbs from the infinitive (remove the final n) and adding subject-specific endings. Practice with common verbs.

Explore German verb conjugation type 3, highlight irregular verbs, and share tips for learning these verbs through examples.

Explore an additional rule for German verb conjugation, focusing on the first and third types and their endings, with examples and notes on when endings change or stay the same.

Learn German A1 sentence structure by mastering subject-verb placement in second position, keeping subject and conjugated verb together, and placing other verbs at the end in infinitive form.

Discover the conjugation of haben and sein, irregular verbs in German, with subject forms like ich habe, du hast, er hat, wir haben, ich bin, du bist, er ist.

Learn how auxiliary (helping) verbs work in German, and when to omit them with a main verb. Practice with er schreibt einen brief and ich lese ein buch.

Cover yes-no and wh- questions in German at level A1, placing the conjugated verb first, using nicht or kein for negation, with examples like is he four years old.

Explore telling time in German with hour and minute vocabulary, am/pm usage, 12- and 24-hour clocks, and minutes-first phrasing for quarters, halves, and various times.

Learn how German articles change with gender and case, including definite and indefinite forms. See nominative and accusative usage with masculine, neutral, feminine, and plural forms through practical examples.

Explore the dative case as the indirect object, review nominative and accusative, and practice German sentence structure with dative before the accusative using house, school, and table examples.

Learn how to negate in German using kein forms before nouns with gender and nominative or accusative case. Use nicht for other negation contexts as shown in examples.

Explore modal verbs in German, learn their conjugation and second-position placement, with the infinitive as the second verb and question word order.

Explore German family vocabulary, including Oma, Opa, Vater, Mutter, Bruder, Schwester, Sohn, Onkel, Tante, Cousin, grandson, granddaughter, and friends.

Explore German possessive articles and pronouns, showing how 'my', 'your', 'his', and 'her' change across nominative and accusative cases, with four forms for masculine, neuter, feminine, and plural.

Master possessive articles in the dative case across masculine, neuter, feminine, and plural. See examples like your brother teaching in our school and my father talking with your grandfather.

Explore German prepositions, including accusative, dative, and changing prepositions, with examples and rules for movement versus location. Learn about preposition plus article forms and usage.

Explore how German interrogative sentences use question words like was, wer, wie, wann, wo, warum, wie viel and wie viele, with the verb second and the subject third.

Learn how to form German interrogatives in part 2, using welcher endings and wie viel/wie viele, applying the verb-second order and relevant cases.