Kernwortschatz
Your 629 core words, 10 at a time.
Für heute fertig. Nothing is due and today's new words are done.
Nouns use these colours everywhere in the app.
Laptop: Space = show / next · P = play · Esc = start
Say it out loud first.
Laptop: Space = flip · 1–4 = rate · P = play · Esc = start
Forgot it? Nochmal. Most answers should be Gut.
Laptop: 1 = der · 2 = die · 3 = das · Space = weiter · Esc = start
The clock stops while a correction is on screen.
Enter = check / next · ae, oe, ue, ss count as ä, ö, ü, ß · nouns need der/die/das · Esc = start
From easy to hard. Each unit: Anja explains (2 minutes), you practise 10 tasks, then you explain the rule out loud. 80 % on the first try = geschafft.
Kommt als Nächstes
Nebensätze mit weil, dass, wenn · Adjektivendungen · Präteritum der anderen Verben · Relativsätze · Passiv · Konjunktiv II · n-Deklination
How this page teaches
Rule first, in plain English, with the pattern in a table [Forschung: explicit instruction helps adults, Norris & Ortega 2000].
„Wer macht was?“ tasks make you read the article, not the word order [Forschung: processing instruction for German der/den, VanPatten and others].
„Du bist der Lehrer“: you correct Tom's mistakes, and at the end you explain the rule out loud [Forschung: learning by teaching, Fiorella & Mayer 2013; explaining on video beat explaining in writing, Hoogerheide and others].
Wiederholung mixes units [Forschung: interleaved grammar practice, Nakata & Suzuki 2019]. Songs and acronyms (DOGFU, Blue Danube) are classroom practice [Praxis].
Fälle-Training: many short questions with instant feedback, whole sentences instead of bare articles, one case job at a time before mixing [Praxis: common advice from German teachers; the one-table view of der and ein follows charts used by several of them].
Quick rounds of 12. Every round has new sentences, so you can practise as often as you like. A miss brings one extra question of the same kind. 80 % in a round = geschafft.
Spickzettel: was jeder Fall macht
Spickzettel: die Artikel
The two tables differ in only three spots: ein has no ending in Nominativ maskulin, Nominativ neutral and Akkusativ neutral. mein, dein, sein and kein work like ein.
Spickzettel: Signalwörter
Akkusativ: durch, ohne, gegen, für, um · es gibt · die meisten Verben (sehen, haben, brauchen, fragen)
Dativ: aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu · helfen, danken, gehören, gefallen, antworten
Wo? → Dativ · Wohin? → Akkusativ: an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen
Genitiv: wegen, während, trotz
Laptop: 1–6 = answer · Enter or Space = next · Esc = start
Anja erklärt
Beispiele
Anjas Tipp
Zum Auswendiglernen
Du bist der Lehrer.
Say your answer out loud, as if you were explaining it to Tom. Then compare.
1–3 = choose · Enter = check / next · Esc = start
Pause? Stand up for a minute. Or go on.
Fertig
Pause? Stand up, drink some water. Or go on.
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German has no rule that covers every noun. These patterns cover many of them. Learn the article with every noun anyway; use the patterns as a first guess and a memory hook.
Strong patterns
Meaning patterns
der: male people (der Vater, der Bruder); days, months, seasons (der Montag, der Mai, der Sommer); times of day (der Abend, but die Nacht).
die: female people (die Mutter, die Freundin).
das: a verb used as a noun (leben → das Leben). Always.
Watch out: das Kind, das Baby, das Mädchen, die Person, das Opfer. People, but the grammar ignores their sex.
Compound nouns: the last part decides
das Haus + die Tür → die Haustür
das Haus + der Schlüssel → der Hausschlüssel
krank + das Haus → das Krankenhaus
Not a rule: -er
Your own list shows why: der Vater, die Mutter, das Zimmer, das Wasser. Only people who do something (der Lehrer, der Fahrer) are reliably der.
Your list: exceptions to know
Sources: Grimm Grammar, UT Austin; Wikipedia: Grammatical gender in German (source of the "about 90 %" figures for -e and Ge-); Wikibooks: German nouns. Check any single word on dwds.de or duden.de.
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Lernstand
Provisional: update after your placement check. Known words still come back for review in step 2, spread out so they don't pile up.
Beispielsätze
Spiele
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