🇩🇪 German: vocabulary and grammar lists, A1 to B2

German A1: vocabulary and grammar lists

A1 29 lists2,051 cards

Level A1 — beginner: can understand and use very simple everyday expressions.

School, free time and the world · Common adjectives and adverbs · In town, shopping and travel · The home, the day and meals · People, family and the body · Numbers, time, days and dates · Countries, nationalities and languages · Pronouns, determiners and negation · Introducing yourself, greetings and communicating · Verbs, function words and more · The imperative: the forms · Modal verbs and polite wishes: whole conjugations · The verb in the present tense: whole conjugations · Reading and pronunciation · Adjectives: describing, gern, un-, -los, -bar · The imperative · Modal verbs and polite wishes · Questions and negation: nicht, kein, man · Nouns and articles · Prepositions: place and direction · Pronouns and possessives: mein, dein, sein, ihr · The verb in the present tense: sein and introducing yourself · Separable verbs · The cases: the accusative · The cases: the dative · The past · The verb in the present tense: regular verbs, haben and vowel changes · Prepositions: time · Word order: the verb in second place, questions, und and denn

German A2: vocabulary and grammar lists

A2 32 lists2,846 cards

Level A2 — elementary: can communicate in simple routine situations.

Body, health and safety · Describing and comparing · Miscellaneous · School and work · Conversation phrases · Family, friends and feelings · Places and positions · Free time, sport and shows · Shops, money and clothes · Home and daily life · Eating and drinking · Times, numbers and measures · Nature, weather and countries · Little words · Phone, internet and media · Common verbs · Travel and transport · Every form so far, verb by verb · The past: participles and auxiliary · The past: the Präteritum of sein, haben and the modal verbs, whole conjugations · Adjectives: endings before a noun · Articles and other words before the noun: welcher, was für ein, alle · Polite requests: the Konjunktiv II · Adjectives: comparing · Linking sentences: denn, deshalb, dann · The present: more verbs that change their vowel · Prepositions: wo and wohin · Reflexive verbs: sich freuen, sich treffen · The dative completed · The past: the Perfekt completed · The past: the Präteritum of sein, haben and the modal verbs · Linking sentences: weil, dass, wenn

German B1: vocabulary and grammar lists

B1 53 lists4,748 cards

Level B1 — intermediate: can handle most everyday situations independently.

Animals, plants and landscapes · Arts, shows and media · How things look and feel · Character and tastes · The body, appearance and clothes · Describing and judging · Miscellaneous · School and language · Efforts, situations, results · Conversation expressions · Familiar German · Family, friends and stages of life · Gestures, movements, positions · Law, crime and politics · Shops, money and services · Home and daily life · Eating, drinking and cooking · Weather, planet and environment · Moments, durations and frequency · Speaking, writing and arguing · Countries, peoples and beliefs · Thinking, hoping and deciding · More little words · Quantities and measures · Health and safety · Science and technology · Feelings and emotions · Sport, free time and going out · Work and jobs · Verbs and set phrases · Common verbs · Town, roads and transport · Travel and holidays · Every form so far, verb by verb · The Konjunktiv II: whole conjugations · The Präteritum: whole conjugations · Principal parts: the common verbs · Adjectives: endings in every case · The Konjunktiv II: advice, wishes and the unreal · The present: more verbs that change their vowel · Pronouns: the dative reflexive, einer, es, two objects · Linking clauses: reasons, concessions, consequences · Relative clauses · The future: the Futur I · Nouns: the genitive, the nouns that add -n, the plural · The infinitive with zu: purpose and lassen · The passive · The past: the Plusquamperfekt and telling a story · The past: the Präteritum · Linking clauses: two-part connectors and participles · Verbs with prepositions: warten auf, darauf, worauf · Word building and spelling · Word order and negation: the middle field, nicht, particles

German B2: vocabulary and grammar lists

B2 73 lists6,440 cards

Level B2 — upper intermediate: can interact fluently on familiar and abstract topics.

Abbreviations and acronyms · Acting, doing, changing · Arts, shows, literature · Music, theatre, film, painting and books · Good, bad, useful · Moving and positioning · Character: qualities, faults and types of people · Believing, doubting, arguing · Efforts, successes, difficulties · Acting, succeeding, failing · Public life, things and nature, finding and noticing · Gestures, movements, getting around · Nuancing and linking ideas · Speaking, writing, answering · Thinking, knowing, judging · Feelings, character, relationships · Time, age, quantities, degrees · Daily life, health, work, society · Familiar German · Family, relationships, social life · Shapes, materials, sensations · Hand movements · Intelligence, energy, courage · Joy, love, emotions · Money and the economy · The home and objects · Home, rooms, furniture and everyday objects · Housework, DIY, tools and the garden · Health and medicine · Illnesses, treatment and medicines · The body, appearance, clothes · The body, hair, make-up, clothes · Time and duration · Work and business · Jobs, the office and working conditions · Studies and language · Law, crime, justice · Crime, police, prison and the law · Media, screens, games and leisure · Sport: matches, competitions and training · Nature, animals, weather · The animal world · Plants, landscapes and weather · Normal, different, important · Food, drink, cooking · Herbs, fish, cheese and baking · Cooking, eating, drinking: kitchen tools and restaurants · Nuancing, stressing, linking · Speaking and communicating · Countries, peoples, beliefs · Thinking, understanding, deciding · Little words · Fear, anger, sadness · Politics, power, war · The army, nobility, the state and elections · Quantities and measures · Science, maths, ecology · Technology and computing · Travel, transport, the city · Cars and roads · Travel by rail, sea and air, hotels, the town · Every form so far: nine tenses, verb by verb · The Konjunktiv I: whole conjugations · Linking clauses: clause, adverb or preposition · Participles and nouns from verbs · Pronouns and small words: es, einer, irgendein, particles · Relative clauses: dessen, wer, was, wo · Reported speech: the Konjunktiv I · Strong verbs: the verbs first met at B2 · The future: the Futur II, supposing and hearsay · Word order and negation: the middle field and negating a part · The passive: the state, no subject, and other ways to say it · The Konjunktiv II: the unreal past and verbs with an infinitive