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. Compound Nouns
3. Conjunctions
3.5 Not happy with your purchase
3.7 "deshalb/deswegen": Make one out of two
3.8 "denn" or "deshalb/deswegen"
3.9 "trotzdem"
3.10 "trotzdem" - A student life full of contradictions
3.11 Logical matches (I)
3.12 Logical matches (II)
3.14 Logical matches (IV)
4. Imperative
4.1 Come on! (I)
4.2 Come on! (II) [Audio]
5. Infinitive clauses
6. Modal verbs
6.1 Plans & wishes [Audio]
6.2 Darn that Dog!
6.3 No place for us
6.4 Along the river banks of the Limmat in Zürich
7. Negation
7.1 Fibs about Ireland [Audio]
8. Ordinal numbers
9. Perfect tense
9.1 Doing & done
9.2 A dozen past participles at a time
9.3 Taking turns
9.5 English words are hip in German advertising
9.7 Another dozen past participles at a time
9.8 Already done! [Audio]
9.9 Find the pattern
9.10 A further dozen past participles at a time
9.11 Why always me? (I)
9.12 Why always me? (II) [Audio]
9.13 Some verbs are really strong
9.14 An additional dozen past participles at a time
9.15 Mainly "haben", sometimes "sein"
9.16 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (I)
9.17 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (II)
9.18 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (III)
9.19 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (IV)
9.20 A play on words somewhere in Zürich
9.21 Professions [Audio]
9.22 A man of routine
9.23 At the drycleaners
9.24 Friday, the 13th!
9.25 Freshly baked
9.26 Halloween
9.27 Missing talents [Audio]
9.28 A Monday morning at the end of October
9.29 Back in the 80s
9.30 Never before (I)
9.31 Never before (II)
9.32 Never before (III)
9.33 The recluse
9.34 Which is the odd one out?
9.36 Speed Dating
9.40 Travelling educates!
9.41 All jumbled up
9.41.1 All jumbled up (I)
9.41.2 All jumbled up (II)
9.41.3 All jumbled up (III)
9.41.4 All jumbled up (IV)
9.41.5 All jumbled up (V)
9.41.6 All jumbled up (VI)
9.41.7 All jumbled up (VII)
9.41.8 All jumbled up (VIII)
10. Perfect tense & simple past tense
10.1 The last time we had snow
10.4 Questions & answers (III)
11. Personal pronouns
11.1 A question of love
11.2 Find a suitable one
11.3 Random questions (I)
11.5 Replace it (I)
11.6 Replace it (II)
12. Plurals
12.1 Test yourself (I)
12.2 Test yourself (II)
12.3 Where is the loo?
13. Possessive articles
13.1 His & Hers
13.2 Yours or mine?
14. Prepositions
14.1 "für" -> Happy Dogs
14.2 "für" -> International vehicle registration codes
14.3 "für" - Fame
14.4 "für" -> Ill chosen Christmas presents [Audio]
14.5 "ohne" -> It rains a lot in Ireland
14.6 "ohne" -> Susanne's rule book
14.8 "aus" -> A multicultural German class
14.9 "aus" -> Where is she coming from?
14.10 "zu" -> Let's go there
14.11 "zu" -> Going places
14.12 "zu" -> Where are the luggage lockers?
14.13 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (I)
14.14 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (II)
14.15 "von" -> Convenient places of residence
14.16 "von" & "zu" -> Tram lines [Audio]
14.17 "bei" -> Where was Martin?
14.18 "in" -> It can go both ways (I)
14.19 "in" -> It can go both ways (II)
14.20 "in" -> It can go both ways (III)
14.21 "in" -> It can go both ways (IV)
14.22 "in" -> Where are they going to? (I)
14.23 "in" -> Where are they going to? (II)
14.24 "in" -> Logical locations
14.25 "nach", "in" & "zu" -> Erasmus students in Dublin
14.26 "nach", "in" & "zu" -> A day like many others
14.27 "auf" -> It can go both ways (I)
14.28 "auf" -> It can go both ways (II)
14.29 "auf" -> Germans prefer to be inside
14.30 "auf" -> Straight out of Grimms' fairytales
14.31 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they (I)
14.32 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they? (II)
14.33 "in","an", "auf" & "in" -> Customers' requests
15. Present tense
15.1 And what about you? [Audio]
16. Separable & inseparable verbs
16.1 Separated in the present tense
16.2 Separated in the imperative
16.3 In combination with modal verbs
16.4 In a cafeteria
16.5 Identify the separable verb
16.6 Can you please do that!
17. Simple past tense
17.1 I am & you were
17.2 I have & you had
17.4 Now it's different (II) [Audio]
18. Word order
18.1 Where was Goethe?