📖 Welcome to the Grammar Library!
Learn German with clarity, not stress.
In this Grammar Library, you’ll find all the important grammar topics that appear in the Speak Up German stories.
You don’t need to learn everything at once. Use the grammar when a story sparks your curiosity or when you want to understand something more clearly.
↓ Choose your level to get started ↓
💡 How to Use This Page
- Choose your level (A1–B2)
- Click on a grammar topic
- See examples from real stories
- Practice only as much as you want
This page is here to help you, it’s not a test.
🧭Choose Your Level
The grammar topics are organized by learner level. Open your level to see all the relevant topics.
🔹 A1 Grammar
Foundations for everyday life
Simple sentences, questions, and the most important structures for first conversations
Topics:
- Personal pronouns (nominative & accusative: ich, mich, dich …)
- Possessive articles (mein, dein, ihr …)
- Accusative with definite articles
- Perfect tense with haben and sein
- Dative verbs (helfen, danken …)
- Question words (wer, was, wie, warum …)
- Telling time & times of day
- Comparative & superlative
🔹 A2 Grammar
More confidence in everyday situations
Describe experiences, explain habits, and tell stories more clearly.
Topics:
- Perfect with sein (review & deeper practice)
- Separable verbs in the perfect tense
- Modal verbs in the perfect tense
- Reflexive verbs
- Two-way prepositions (accusative / dative)
- Temporal conjunctions (als, wenn)
- Prefix verbs (meaning & context)
- Subordinate clauses with als and wenn (review)
🔹 B1 Grammar
Connect ideas & explain
Express opinions, reasons, timelines, and link situations.
Topics:
- Temporal prepositions (seit, vor, bis)
- Temporal adverbs (vorher, danach, inzwischen)
- Subordinate clauses with obwohl and trotzdem
- Final clauses (damit, um … zu)
- Passive voice (present tense)
- Reported speech (basics)
- Relative clauses with dative
- Relative clauses with genitive
- Conjunction ob & indirect questions
- Participles as adjectives (basics)
🔹 B2 Grammar
Precise & nuanced expression
Complex thoughts, formal language, and abstract content.
Topics:
- Infinitive constructions with zu
- Relative clauses with prepositions
- Present & past participles as adjectives
- Pluperfect (Plusquamperfekt)
- Subjunctive I (reporting speech)
- Subjunctive II (politeness & wishes)
- Subjunctive II past
- Nominalization of verbs
- Passive voice (past tense)
- Complex temporal sentence structures (nachdem, kaum … da, sobald)
🔁 Learn Grammar in Context
All the grammar topics on this page are used in real stories.
You can always:
- Go back to the relevant story
- Hear the grammar in context
- Use it step by step with more confidence
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