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Adjectives

Clear English explanation of comparative and superlative adjectival forms
Positive, Comparative and Superlative Review **
Adjective endings (sentence completion)
Adjective endings (sentence completion)
Adjectival Forms
Adjective Endings
Adjective Ending Quiz
Adjectival Degrees** (two exercises)
Adjective Opposites**

Adjectival Nouns: Explanation Adjectival Nouns ** (two exercises)
Dornröchen**
Paulas Unfall**

Conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions (multiple-choice)
Nachdem and Bevor Clauses **
Combining clauses (matching)
Creating infinitival clauses (sentence completion)
Verbal Style (2 exercises) **
Nominal Style (2 exercises) **
Fill-Ins: Als, Wenn, Wann, oder Ob? **
Translations: Als, Wenn, Wann, or Ob? **
Als, Wenn, Wann
Conjunctions

German Culture

Landeskunde Online Kaleidoskop (learn about contemporary German culture from everyday Germans)

Games

Das Spiel 007

Grammar

German grammar
Elementary German grammar
intermediate German grammar
Archive of other German-grammar sites

Letter Writing

Briefe schreiben (ZDF Übungen) **
Examples of German correspondence for most occasions
The Letter Assistant provides instruction on letter writing and design

Nouns and Pronouns

Noun cases (multiple choice)
Noun singulars and plurals (table completion)
Noun genders (table completion)
Possessive pronouns (sentence completion)
Possessive pronouns (multiple choice)
Possessive pronouns (multiple choice)
Articles and Cases: Explanation and Quizzes
Pronoun Substitution (visit the page frequently to generate different sets of exercises)**
Wer, Wen, Wem, or Was? (visit the page frequently to generate different sets of exercises)**
Reflexive Pronouns
DAP-ADN
Cases: article and adjective endings (multiple choice)
Challenging Cases:: Nominative, Dative or Genitive? (2 exercises) **
Article Endings
German Cases
Dative endings
Dative Pronouns
Genitive Case

Online German Courses

German Steps (BBC)
German for Beginners (German Way)
Intermediate German
Wirtschaftsdeutsch

Place Phrases

Arbeitsplätze **
Arbeitsplätze: Wohin?? **
Wohnungen **
Sonstiges **
Zu Hause **
Locations (three exercises) **
Destinations (two exercises) **
AC/DC in Albert's Room **
AC/DC in Jutta's Room **

Placement Tests

Goethe-Institut Placement Test

Prepositions

Locations (four exercises)**
Destinations (two exercises)**
AC/DC in Albert's Room **
Hanging out with hängen **
Prepositions
AC-DC articles
AC/DC Prepositions

Lost and Found **
DA-compounds or personal pronouns? (two sets of exercises)**
WO-compounds or personal pronouns? (two sets of exercises)**
Prepositions (multiple choice)
German equivalents of "to" (2 exercises) **
Aus, bei nach, von, zu
Im, am or um
Idioms with prepositions (2 exercises) **

Some verbs are usually accompanied by prepositions. Try the entire unit on this topic (10 exercises), or only the indifividual components:
Verbs requiring prepositions: English equivalents **
• Verbs requiring prepositions: Matching Quiz (5 exercises) **
• Verbs requiring prepositions: Dative or Accusative? (3 exercises) **

Some nouns are often accompanied by prepositions. Try the entire unit on this topic (6 exercises), on only the individual components:
• Nouns requiring prepositions: English equivalents **
• Nouns requiring prepositions: Matching Quiz **
• Nouns requiring prepositions: Dative or Accusative? **

Sometimes you can make the most out of the least. The following expressions are based on high-frequency verbs:
• Idioms with "bringen zu" **
• Idioms with "geraten in" **
• Idioms with "kommen zu" **
• Idioms with "stehen in" **
• Idioms with "setzen in" **
• Idioms with prepositions (2 Übungen) **

Pronunciation

Learn how to speak better German with the German Pronunciation Guide
Improve your pronunciation of words and phrases at The Virtual German Language Lab
Read explanations and illustrations of proper German pronunciation
Distinguish between umlauted and non-umlauted sounds

Reading Comprehension

Urlaubsfahrt **
Die besten Urlauber **
Landeskunde Online Archive of reading comprehension exercises (Goethe-Institut)
Briefe schreiben (ZDF Übungen) **
Reading comprehension exercises designed to prepare students for the Zertifikat Deutsch exam are available on the Advanced German page of our WebCT program

• ZDF Prüfung: Modell (PDF Datei)
  ZDF Plus Prüfung Modell (PDF Datei)

Relative Clauses

Definite relative pronouns (five sets of exercises: Masculine, Feminine, Plural, Mixed) **
Indefinite relative pronouns (two sets of exercises) **

• Relative pronouns
  Relative Clauses about Thomas Mann **
  Relative Clauses about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe **
  Relative Pronouns **

Time Phrases

Time Phrases (3 translation exercises)**

Translations (listed in order of dificulty)

Who are you? **
Who are those other people? **
Miscellaneous Sentences **
How are you feeling? **
Dialogue: Duration and Frequency
Basic Time Phrases
Advanced Time Phrases (three exercises)**
Dialogue: Birthday **
Dialogue: Plans for the day **
Dialogue: Thanksgiving **
Dialogue: Tough Decision **
Dialog: What's up? (1)**
Dialog: Christmas Gifts**
Lost and Found **
Questions about Housing **
In the Restaurant **
Es geht mir schlecht **
Tagesablauf **
Dialog: Zuviel verlangt **
Meanings of "werden" (2 exercises) **
Chronology (with conjunctions)
Chronology (with wishes)
Extreme Verb Conjugations: singen (4 exercises) **
Extreme Verb Conjugations: lesen (4 exercises) **
Extreme Verb Conjugations: lassen (4 exercises) **
One action or two? **
Als, Wenn, Wann, or Ob? **
Past or Present? Indicative or Subjunctive? **
Relative Pronouns **
Extreme Verb Conjugations: singen (4 exercises) **
Der Watzmann **
Die Heinzelmännchen **
Gappmeier: Der Gute Mann (3 exercises) **
German equivalents of "to" (2 exercises) **
German equivalents of verbs requiring prepositions (2 exercises) **
Adjectives with -ig, -bar, -haft, and -lich (multiple choice) **
Verbs with negative connotations (er-, ver-) **
Verbs with positive connotations (er-, ver-) **
Restating phrases without machen (er-, ver-) (2 Übungen) **
Restating phrases without werden (er-, ver-) (2 Übungen) **
Making Conclusions (two exercises)**

Verbs

Conjugate any German verb
Verb Conjugation (toggle back and forth between the two sets of exercises to generate different quizzes)**
Eliminate the modal verb **
Insert the modal verb **
Commands
Basic Reflexive Verbs (German to English equivalents; three exercises)**
Basic Reflexive Verbs (English to German equivalents; three exercises)**
Reflexive Verbs (German to English matching) **
Reflexive Verbs (English to German matching) **
Making commands (2 exercises) **
Making commands with reflexive verbs (2 exercises) **
Reflexive Verbs (three sets of sentence-completion exercises) **
Simple Past
Simple Past Modals
Forms of werden
Dative Verbs **
Dative verbs
Reflexive Verbs (English-German)
Dornröchen**
Paulas Unfall**
Extreme Verb Conjugations: lesen (4 exercises) **
Extreme Verb Conjugations: singen (4 exercises) **
Subjective use of modal verbs (4 Übungen: müssen, wollen, können, sollen) **

Verbs requiring prepositions
• Matching Quiz (four sets of exercises) **
• English equivalents (four sets of exercises) **
• Dative or Accusative? (two sets of exercises) **

Verbs: Subjunctive Mood
• Clear English explanation of the Subjunctive II
• Clear English explanation of the Subjunctive I
• Konjunktiv II Quiz
• Making wishes with the present subjunctive (two sets of exercises) **
• Making wishes with the past subjunctive (two sets of exercises) **
• Commands and polite requests (two sets of exercises) **
  Past or Present? Indicative or Subjunctive? **
  Indirect Discourse: Short Texts (4 exercises) **
  Indirect Discourse: Dialogues **

Verbs: Passive Voice
• Clear English explanation of the Passive voice
• Changing active to passive voice **
• Passive Voice with dative verbs **
• Passiv Voice with modal verbs **
• Passive Voice with "es" **
• Passive Voice with "es" and modals **
• Recipe in passive voice (sentence completion)
• Passive conjugations (sentence completion)
• Worden oder geworden? (multiple choice)
• Aktiv - Passiv (sentence creation)
• Von, durch oder mit? (multiple choice)

Vocabulary

Saying Hello and Good-Bye
Fields of Study
Noun Plurals**

• Health Vocabulary
  Glossary of Reflexive Verbs
  Selecting the right Verb
  General and specific words (four sets of matching exercises) **
  General and specific words (four quizzes) **
  Expressing opinions **
  Idioms: Making Comparisons (4 exercises) **
  Interactive Speaking and Listening (four exercises)**
  Making Conclusions (two exercises)**
  Giving Advice **
  Telefon-Deutsch (Ruf Mal An) (toggle back and forth between exercises to generate different quizzes)**
  Idiomatische Redewendungen (November 2003)
  Idioms: Speaking and Listening (2 exercises) **
  Idioms: Stress and Indolence (2 exercises) **
  Austrian German (crossword puzzle)
  Austrian-German (3 exercises) **
  Swiss-German (3 exercises) **
  Linguistic Registers: Verbs **
  Linguistic Rgeisters: Intensity
  Idiomatische Redewendungen
  Idiomatische Redewendungen 2005 **
  Which word is appropriate?erst, noch, or schon?
  Dative Adjectives (matching) **
  Genitive Adjectives (matching) **
  Modalpartikeln (flavoring particles) (translations)**
  Flavoring particles (matching) **
  Flavoring particles (multiple choice) **
  Modalpartikel (flavoring particles) (short answer; two exercises) **
  Reflexive Verbs (English-German) **
  Rhetorical Strategies (PDF files) **
  Adjectives with -ig, -bar, -haft, and -lich (multiple choice) **
  Americanized German words (multiple choice) **

Word order

Simple Word order **
Basic Word order **
Advanced Word order **
Pronoun Substitution (visit the page frequently to generate different sets of exercises)**

• Word order and separable prefixes
  Conjunctive Adverbs (matching) **
  Conjunctive Adverbs (paragraph completion) **
  Making Conclusions (two exercises)**