Kilo Lingo

German grammar

Every German grammar topic, in one place

Filter by CEFR level, search by topic, and pick the piece that fits what you are stuck on. The catalogue covers the full set of German grammar rules from the SVO baseline at A1 to the register-shifting moves at C1.

Studying for AQA GCSE German? See every grammar structure the specification prescribes, and where each one is taught. Start with the German alphabet. Every letter, its sound and how to type it, before the grammar.

  1. Beginner (A1-A2)

    'Used To'

    How German says used to with früher and the perfect tense, and why narratives switch to the present tense for past events.

  2. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Adjective Endings

    German adjective endings look like 48 things to memorise. They are one rule: if the article has not shown the gender and case, the adjective has to.

  3. Intermediate (B1-B2)

    Adjectives as Nouns

    German turns adjectives into nouns without any extra suffix: die Reichen (the rich), das Gute (the good) and das Deutsch (the German language) each work differently.

  4. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Articles

    German articles in one chart: der, die and das across all four cases, ein and kein, the gender endings that really work, and a quick quiz.

  5. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Big Numbers

    A German Billion is an English trillion, 3,5 is three point five and 1990 has no und. Big numbers, prices, years and ordinals, with the traps.

  6. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Cases Chart

    The four German cases with the full article and pronoun charts, which prepositions take which case, worked examples and a quiz to check yourself.

All German grammar topics, A-Z

Beginner (A1-A2)

Intermediate (B1-B2)