German Grammar

Adjectives are used to describe characteristics of nouns.

Adverbs provide additional information about how, when, where, or why something happens. Unlike adjectives, which describe nouns, adverbs describe actions, qualities, or other descriptive words.

Articles are words that are always found together with nouns. For this reason, they are often called "companions". They include additional information about a noun, such as gender, case and number.

German has four cases that help us understand the relationships between the words in a sentence. They also tell us which specific “role” a word or group of words takes in a sentence.

Miscellaneous refers to grammar concepts that do not neatly fall under common categories like "Noun" or "Verb".

Nouns are words that refer to things, people, animals, plants, or abstract concepts. e.g. the tree, the dog, the flower, the illness. They are always capitalized in German.

A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between things, like "in," "on," or "under." For example, in "The cat is under the chair.” "Under" is the preposition because it shows where the cat is in relation to the chair.

Pronouns are short words like he, she or it that replace nouns and names in a sentence. They make it possible to talk about something or someone without continually repeating their full name.

Tense indicates the time of an action or state, show if something occurred in the past, present, or future.

Verbs are “doing” words that describe actions. They appear in the dictionary in their most basic form, the infinitive, which usually ends on -en, or occasionally -ern, -eln or -n. This ending changes depending on the tense and who is doing the action.