German B1 · Intermediate
Connect ideas across time, handle the genitive and relative clauses, and express hypotheses, the passive and reported facts.
- Simple past (Präteritum) of regular & strong verbs
- Past perfect (Plusquamperfekt)
- Perfect tense with modal verbs and the double infinitive
- The genitive case
- Prepositions with the genitive (wegen, während, trotz, statt)
- Adjective endings with no article (strong declension)
- Adjective endings after quantifiers (viele, einige, beide, alle, manche)
- Adjectival nouns (der Deutsche, etwas Schönes)
- N-declension (weak masculine nouns: der Junge → den Jungen)
- Relative clauses with nominative, accusative and dative relative pronouns
- Konjunktiv II: hätte, wäre, könnte, sollte
- Konjunktiv II: würde + infinitive
- Passive voice: present & simple past (werden + Partizip II)
- Infinitive clauses with zu after verbs, adjectives and nouns
- "um... zu" and "damit" (purpose)
- Verbs with fixed prepositions (warten auf, denken an)
- Prepositional adverbs (darauf, daran, worauf...)
- Subordinating conjunctions of concession and condition (obwohl, falls, seitdem)
- Conjunctional adverbs (deshalb, trotzdem, dennoch, also)
- Tense sequence with nachdem & bevor
- Indirect questions (ob and W-words)
- "je... desto / umso"
- Reflexive pronouns in the dative (sich etwas vorstellen)
- "Lassen" for causative and permissive meaning