Grammar

Knowing your grammar and being able to self-check the accuracy of your productive language (writing and talking) is absolutely essential at Higher level and beyond. To refresh your memory on basic grammar (Present Tense, Separable Verbs, Reflexive Verbs, Irregular Verbs: haben and sein), please visit the S3 German grammar page. To revisit the grammar that we covered in N4/5 German (Perfect Tense, Imperfect Tense, Future Tense, Conditional Tense), please visit the N4/5 German grammar page.

For Higher, you will need to be good at using the tenses above, and at checking Irregular Verbs and Stem-Changing Verbs using the dictionary to support you. You will also need to have a good understanding of the Case System, which teaches us which articles and determiners to use with nouns that are the Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object of the sentence and helping us show the relationship of one noun to another.

As you can already see, understanding the Case System will require you to understand some grammatical terms but don't worry - you will master the jargon and unlock this part of German grammar too. Like all learning, just take it one step at a time...