Grammar / Grammatik

Plural Nouns With no End Changes

Different ways to form the conditional in German.

General guidelines when using adjectives.

'Aus' as a German Preposition.

Plural Nouns With –S Endings Chart

Explanation of adverbs 'wo' and 'da'

How to describe somebody's nationality.

Compound Adjectives - When To Write Them Apart or Together

A detailed look at the German preposition 'bei.'

Explanation of German Mistake: "Ich bin kalt."

Difference Between 'Sehr' And 'Viel'

Definition of spöttisch.

An explanation of the difference between 'sehr' and 'viel'.

About German Negation Part II

A closer look at German adverbs erst and nur.

German Personal Pronoun 'Es'.

'Derselbe' and 'Der gleiche' - Difference Between 'Derselbe' and 'Der gleiche'

How to form a sentence with accusative prepositions.

How to form a sentence with dative prepositions.

A collection of German homonyms.

The Position of Nicht.

Asking questions in German with the 6 w-words.

Related Words and Expressions of the "für" preposition.

German Personal Pronoun 'Es'

A gude to easy adjectives to remember.

The Difference Between für and for in detail.

German Quantity Words - Quantity Words in German

Plural Nouns With –N/EN Endings Chart

A chart of Plural Nouns With –ER Endings

An Exercise of Personal Pronoun 'Es'

Plural Nouns With -E Endings Chart

Definition of riesig.

An introduction to plurals of nouns with links to the different plural groups.

Tips on using conjunctions with similar meaning: aber/sondern.

A lesson on prepositions that can take on both the dative and accusative cases.

Explanation of the German prepositions and which prepositional case they fall in.

The various ways of saying "you" in German

An overview of German infinitive.

German Definite Articles Explained to the German Learner/Student

Our guide to all the grammar articles and references on our site - listed by grammatical topic!

Quickly find the conjugation of many common German verbs.

A simpler approach to learning or teaching the endings. Just ask yourself two questions. A guest feature.

Test yourself on how well you know your German adjective endings.

German is the only world language that requires the capitalization of all nouns. But once you get past that easy rule, the German capitalization rules can be a bit more tricky. Here's a lesson to help you write better German.

German comparisons are similar to English, but there are a few tricks you should know. With exercises.

All of our verb-related pages and verb conjugation charts.

Der, die, or das? It's not always easy to tell the gender of German nouns. Here's some help.

A lesson about using 'Sie' and 'du' ('you' and 'thou') in German. Learning to use the formal versus the familiar forms of German 'you' words.

An introduction to the subjunctive (der Konjunktiv) mood in German - when and how to use it. The German Subjunctive I and Subjunctive II.

The German subjunctive (Konjunktiv) mood - when and how to use it. Subjunctive II, or the 'past subjunctive.'

There is a class of masculine German nouns that do things most German nouns don't do. In certain grammatical situations these nouns have endings that most other nouns don't have. Learn more in this lesson on German nouns with irregular endings.

Our free online course for German. Includes audio.

As in English, German uses both present and past participles as adverbs and adjectives. However, there are some important differences between the ways that the two languages do this. Here's a lesson that points out the differences and gives examples.

Although German and English punctuation is often similar, there are a few key differences. Learn how German punctuation can differ from English--from the use of quotation marks (two kinds) to the lack of commas in certain situations.

Our chart of strong (irregular) verbs in German.

Can't tell the accusative from the dative? Not sure what a conjunction is? Find the answers to your German grammar terminology questions here - in plain English.

Learn when and how to use this German verb mood. With self-scoring quiz.

German prepositions: potential problems and how to avoid them.

The public debate over German spelling reforms - first introduced in 1996 - heated up again in 2004 when several German periodicals announced they were returning to the 'classic' spelling rules. Does this spell the end of the reforms?

A look at one aspect of German spelling reform: to ß or to ss, that is the question.

The German media began using the neue Rechtschreibung on Aug. 1, 1999. What does it mean for German-learners?

Our chart of strong (irregular) verbs in German.

Learn the top ten kinds of mistakes that beginning students of German are likely to make - and how to avoid them!

A introduction to German adverbs plus links to detailed description of each adverb group.

A guide and list to adverbs of location

A guide and list to German adverbs in time

Use this checklist to proofread and edit your writing. This checklist disregards the basic writing/grammar points that you would find in a general writing checklist such as beginning a sentence with a capital letter, indenting a paragraph etc. This checklist is specifically geared for those writing/grammar concepts that are essential to correct German writing

An explanation of adverbs of place with examples

an explanation of adverbs of time with examples

Adverbs of Maner and Degree

An explanation of adverbs of cause with examples.

An article about German adverbs with links to further information on specific groups of adverbs.

How adjectives can be formed from nouns by adding suffixes.

How verbs can be changed into adjectives by adding suffixes

The difference between "nicht" and "kein" and their position in a sentences.

grammar checklist

A German Exercise on Verbal Phrases.

German sentence word order when using adverbs as conjunctions.