Lesson 2: Word Order in Simple German Sentences
The verb in second position, normal and inverted word order, questions, negation, and the German sentence bracket.
Lesson 3: Noun Plurals and Possessive Determiners
Plural endings, umlauts, diminutives, feminine nouns ending in -in, and forms such as mein, dein, and sein.
Lesson 4: Adjective Declension, Weak Verbs, and Questions
Nominative adjective endings, weak verbs in the present tense, and German questions with and without question words.
Lesson 5: Accusative, haben, Negation, and Conjunctions
Accusative forms, the present tense of haben, negation with kein and nicht, and the conjunctions und, aber, oder, and sondern.
Lesson 6: Strong Verbs, Accusative, Numbers, and Quantity Questions
Vowel changes in strong verbs, accusative pronouns and prepositions, German numbers, and questions with wie viel and wie viele.
Lesson 7: Modal Verbs, Direction, and Telling the Time
Modal verb conjugation, word order, direction with wohin, impersonal es, and common ways to tell the time.
Lesson 8: German Imperative, man, and Ordinal Numbers
Imperative forms for du, ihr, Sie, and wir, the pronoun man, and the formation and declension of ordinal numbers.
Lesson 9: German Dative Case: der Dativ
Dative forms with articles, pronouns, plural endings, n-declension, adjectives, and important German dative verbs.
Lesson 10: Spatial Prepositions in German
wo, wohin, and woher, dative and accusative for place and direction, fixed dative prepositions, and contractions like im, ins, zum, and vom.
Lesson 11: Separable Prefixes, Compound Verbs, and Time Expressions
Separable verbs, compound verbs, ordinal numbers in the dative, and time expressions with im, am, um, and seit.
Lesson 12: German Präteritum Past Tense
How the Präteritum works with weak and strong verbs, sein and haben, separable-prefix verbs, and modal verbs.
Lesson 13: Subordinate Clauses and the Pronouns jemand, niemand, etwas, nichts
Verb-final subordinate clauses with dass, ob, weil, da, wenn, als, damit, and the pronouns jemand, niemand, etwas, and nichts.
Lesson 14: German Perfect Tense: das Perfekt
Past tense with haben and sein, Partizip II, word order, separable prefixes, and modal verbs.
Lesson 16: Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs and Plusquamperfekt
Komparativ, Superlativ, comparisons with wie and als, and Plusquamperfekt with hatte or war and Partizip II.
Lesson 17: Infinitive and Indefinite Pronouns in German
Infinitives with and without zu, infinitive clauses with um, statt, and ohne, haben and sein + zu, and key indefinite pronouns.
Lesson 18: Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs and lassen in German
Reflexive pronouns in the accusative and dative, reciprocal verbs, and lassen, sich lassen, and Lass uns with examples.
Lesson 19: German Pronominal Adverbs and Subordinate Clauses
womit, worüber, worauf, damit, darüber, darauf, verbs with fixed prepositions, and clauses with soweit and obwohl.
Lesson 20: German Place and Direction Adverbs, Substantivization, and Compound Nouns
wo, wohin, woher, forms with hin and her, substantivized words, and German compound nouns with linking elements.