German A2 · Elementary
Talk about the past, handle the dative and key prepositions, make comparisons, and link ideas in everyday situations.
- Simple past of "sein" and "haben" (war, hatte)
- Perfect tense with "haben"
- Perfect tense: strong & mixed verbs with "haben" (gegessen, gesehen, gebracht)
- Perfect tense with "sein" (movement & change of state)
- Modal verbs in the simple past (konnte, musste, wollte)
- The dative case
- Articles in the dative (dem, der, den + -n)
- Verbs with the dative (helfen, danken, gefallen)
- Prepositions with the accusative (für, ohne, gegen, um, durch)
- Prepositions with the dative (mit, nach, bei, von, zu, aus, seit)
- Two-way prepositions (in, an, auf, über, unter...)
- Personal pronouns in the dative (mir, dir, ihm, ihr...)
- Reflexive verbs (sich freuen, sich waschen)
- Possessive articles in all cases
- Equality comparisons with "so... wie"
- Comparative of adjectives (größer, besser als)
- Superlative of adjectives (am größten, der beste)
- Basic adjective endings after der-words
- Basic adjective endings after ein-words
- Coordinating conjunctions (und, aber, oder, denn, sondern)
- Subordinate clauses with "weil" and "dass"
- Temporal clauses with "wenn" and "als"
- Future tense with "werden"
- Word order of objects (dative before accusative; pronouns first)
- Word order of adverbials and "nicht"
- Determiners "dieser" and "welcher"