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A pronunciation guide to ie and ei
Ab or seit?
Abbreviations of prepositions and articles
Accusative/dative prepositions
Adjective endings after definite articles (der, die, das, etc.)
Adjective endings after ein, eine, etc.
Adjective endings if there is no article
All about all-
Asking a question using welcher
Asking questions
Comparisons: als or wie?
Compound nouns
Conditional sentences using wenn
Conjugating regular verbs in the present tense
Dass or das?
Dasselbe or das Gleiche?
Demonstrative pronouns - der, die, das (him, her, it, them, etc.)
Derjenige, diejenige and dasjenige
Derselbe, dieselbe and dasselbe
Dieser, diese and dieses (this/these)
Du vs. Sie
Ein or eins?
Endings added to comparative adjectives
Es or das?
Es vs. man
Expressing a contrast or contradiction with obwohl, trotzdem, zwar, etc.
Expressing consequences
Expressing preferences
Expressing your opinion
F, ph or v?
Forming a sentence with two infinitives
Forming and using the Konjunktiv II
Forming and using the subjunctive I
Forming the future tense using werden
Giving advice
Giving instructions
Giving reasons
Hin and her
How do we pronounce -ch-?
How to express a purpose or objective
How to pronounce sch and ch
How to pronounce the 5 vowels
How to pronounce the letters C, G, H, J, K and Q
How to pronounce the letters R, V, W, X, Y and Z
Indefinite articles in the accusative case
Indefinite articles in the dative case
Indirect speech with dass, ob and w- words
Infinitives used with zu
Introduction to adjective declination
Introduction to relative pronouns
Irregular verbs in the present tense
Kein vs. nicht
Leicht or einfach?
Long and short pronunciation of vowels
Making a comparison with als and als ob followed by the subjunctive II
Modal particles
Modal verbs in the simple past tense
N-declension
Negation using nicht
Nichts or nicht?
Numbers 1 to 10
Numbers 100 to 1000
Numbers 11 to 20
Numbers greater than 1000
Ordinal numbers
Personal pronouns in the accusative case
Personal pronouns in the dative case
Personal pronouns (nominative case)
Plural endings in the dative
Plural forms that take an ‑er, ‑s or no ending
Position of modal verbs in a sentence
Possessive adjectives in the accusative
Possessive adjectives in the dative
Possessive adjectives in the genitive
Possessive adjectives in the nominative
Possessive pronouns in the nominative
Prepositions for referring to points in time and time spans
Prepositions for talking about time
Prepositions that take the accusative
Prepositions used with the dative
Prepositions used with the genitive
Pronunciation guide
Pronunciation guide for s, ss and ß
Question words
Reflexive pronouns – accusative or dative?
Reflexive verbs in the accusative and dative
Regular verbs in the simple past tense
Relative pronouns in different cases
Schwer or schwierig?
Sehr or viel?
Sentences using dass
Separable verbs in the present tense
Separable verbs used with modal verbs
Telling the time
Telling the time using halb and Viertel
Tense order: the Präteritum (simple past) and the past perfect
The auxiliary verbs sein and haben in the perfect tense
The basic structure of a German sentence (the TeCaMoLo rule)
The comparative
The definite article
The definite article in the dative case
The definite article ("the") in the accusative case
The diminutive
The future perfect tense
The genitive
The imperative
The imperative of sein and haben
The indefinite article
The modal verbs dürfen (may) and sollen (should)
The modal verbs mögen, möchten and wollen
The modal verbs müssen and können
The negative article kein
The numbers from 21 to 99
The passive voice
The passive: werden or sein?
The past participle
The past participle of separable verbs
The past participles of sein and werden
The past perfect tense
The perfect tense
The plural endings ‑e, ‑en and ‑innen
The position of adverbs in a sentence
The present participle
The pronoun man
The question words wer, wen, wem and wessen
The relative pronouns welcher, welche, welches
The sequence of tenses in the present
The simple past tense of irregular verbs
The subjunctive I of haben (to have), sein (to be) and modal verbs
The superlative
The tens from 10 to 100
The use of modal verbs
The verb lassen
The verbs sein and haben
The verbs sein and haben in the Konjunktiv II
The verbs sein and haben in the simple past tense
The “w” sound in German
Turning adjectives into nouns
Turning verbs into nouns
Umlauts
Using da with prepositions
Using kein
Using the dative and accusative in a sentence
Using the passive in indirect speech
Using the past participle as an adjective
Using the subjunctive II as a polite form
Using wo (where) with prepositions
Verb position
Verbs which take the accusative
Verbs which take the dative
Verbs with the vowel change a ä in the present tense
Verbs with the vowel change e i(e) in the present tense
Was as a relative pronoun
Was or das?
Wenn vs. als
When are separable verbs not separated?
Wo, wohin or woher?
Word order
Word order when stating a time or place
Years

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