A1(Higher): Nuts & Bolts of German
In this section you will get to know more building instructions for putting the German words together to form proper sentences.
1. Accusative case
1.1 Direct object
1.1.1 Worth a photo!
1.1.2 I don't need all that!
1.2 Definite time expressions: Last time
2. Article words
2.1 "jeder": A special offer for film fans
2.2 "jeder": A bit of graffiti
3. Compound Nouns
4. Conjunctions
4.5 Not happy with your purchase
4.7 "deshalb/deswegen": Make one out of two
4.8 "denn" or "deshalb/deswegen"
4.9 "trotzdem"
4.10 "trotzdem" - A student life full of contradictions
4.11 Logical matches (I)
4.12 Logical matches (II)
4.14 Logical matches (IV)
5. Imperative
5.1 Come on! (I)
5.2 Come on! (II) [Audio]
6. Infinitive clauses
7. Modal verbs
7.1 Plans & wishes [Audio]
7.2 Darn that Dog!
7.3 No place for us
7.4 Along the river banks of the Limmat in Zürich
8. Negation
8.1 Fibs about Ireland [Audio]
9. Ordinal numbers
10. Perfect tense
10.1 Doing & done
10.2 A dozen past participles at a time
10.3 Taking turns
10.4 Martin Luther King
10.5 English words are hip in German advertising
10.6 The class of -ieren
10.7 Another dozen past participles at a time
10.8 Already done! [Audio]
10.9 Find the pattern
10.10 A further dozen past participles at a time
10.11 Why always me? (I)
10.12 Why always me? (II) [Audio]
10.13 Some verbs are really strong
10.14 An additional dozen past participles at a time
10.15 Mainly "haben", sometimes "sein"
10.16 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (I)
10.17 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (II)
10.18 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (III)
10.19 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (IV) [Audio]
10.20 A play on words somewhere in Zürich
10.21 Professions [Audio]
10.22 A man of routine
10.23 At the drycleaners
10.24 Friday, the 13th!
10.25 Freshly baked
10.26 Halloween
10.27 Missing talents [Audio]
10.28 A Monday morning at the end of October
10.29 Back in the 80s
10.30 Never before (I)
10.31 Never before (II)
10.32 Never before (III)
10.33 The recluse
10.34 Which is the odd one out?
10.35 Just before the holidays
10.36 Speed Dating
10.37 Christmas preparations
10.38 Famous Irish people (I)
10.39 Famous Irish people (II)
10.40 Travelling educates!
10.41 All jumbled up
10.41.1 All jumbled up (I)
10.41.2 All jumbled up (II)
10.41.3 All jumbled up (III)
10.41.4 All jumbled up (IV)
10.41.5 All jumbled up (V)
10.41.6 All jumbled up (VI)
10.41.7 All jumbled up (VII)
10.41.8 All jumbled up (VIII)
11. Perfect tense & simple past tense
11.1 The last time we had snow
11.4 Questions & answers (III)
12. Personal pronouns
12.1 A question of love
12.2 Find a suitable one
12.3 Random questions (I)
12.5 Replace it (I)
12.6 Replace it (II)
13. Plurals
13.1 Test yourself (I)
13.2 Test yourself (II)
13.3 Where is the loo?
14. Possessive articles
14.1 His & Hers
14.2 Yours or mine?
15. Prepositions
15.1 "für" -> Happy Dogs
15.2 "für" -> International vehicle registration codes
15.3 "für" - Fame
15.4 "für" -> Ill chosen Christmas presents [Audio]
15.5 "ohne" -> It rains a lot in Ireland
15.6 "ohne" -> Susanne's rule book
15.8 "aus" -> A multicultural German class
15.9 "aus" -> Where is she coming from?
15.10 "zu" -> Let's go there
15.11 "zu" -> Going places
15.12 "zu" -> Where are the luggage lockers?
15.13 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (I)
15.14 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (II)
15.15 "von" -> Convenient places of residence
15.16 "von" & "zu" -> Tram lines [Audio]
15.17 "bei" -> Where was Martin?
15.18 "in" -> It can go both ways (I)
15.19 "in" -> It can go both ways (II)
15.20 "in" -> It can go both ways (III)
15.21 "in" -> It can go both ways (IV)
15.22 "in" -> Where are they going to? (I)
15.23 "in" -> Where are they going to? (II)
15.24 "in" -> Logical locations
15.25 "nach", "in" & "zu" -> Erasmus students in Dublin
15.26 "nach", "in" & "zu" -> A day like many others
15.27 "auf" -> It can go both ways (I)
15.28 "auf" -> It can go both ways (II)
15.29 "auf" -> Germans prefer to be inside
15.30 "auf" -> Straight out of Grimms' fairytales
15.31 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they (I)
15.32 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they? (II)
15.33 "in","an", "auf" & "in" -> Customers' requests
15.34 Out trip to Munich
16. Present tense
16.1 And what about you? [Audio]
17. Separable & inseparable verbs
17.1 Separated in the present tense
17.2 Separated in the imperative
17.3 In combination with modal verbs
17.4 In a cafeteria
17.5 Identify the separable verb
17.6 Can you please do that!
18. Simple past tense
18.1 I am & you were [Audio]
18.2 I have & you had [Audio]
18.4 Now it's different (II) [Audio]
19. Word order
19.1 Where was Goethe?