German

German grammar

Overview of grammar units from A1 to B2 — with rules, exercises, and cloze tasks.

LevelAllA1A2B1B2
B2

Konjunktiv II: past and modal verbs

Hätte ich nur … — talking about what wasn't real in the past.

  • Verbs
B2

Konjunktiv I — indirect speech

Er sagte, er sei … — indirect speech in news.

  • Verbs
B2

Passive voice: simple past and with modal verbs

Das Haus wurde gebaut. Das Auto muss repariert werden. – passive voice extended.

  • Verbs
B2

Stative passive and passive paraphrases

Die Tür ist geöffnet. – state instead of action, plus alternatives.

  • Verbs
B2

Subjective modal verbs and Futur II

Er dürfte … Sie wird … haben. – expressing assumptions.

  • Verbs
B2

Light verb constructions

in Frage stellen, zur Verfügung stellen – fixed expressions.

  • Verbs
B2

Nominalization and nominal style

The typical bureaucratic and specialist text style.

  • Nouns
  • Other
B2

Genitive attribute and formal genitive prepositions

anlässlich, hinsichtlich — formal genitive.

  • Nouns
  • Prepositions
B2

Extended participial attributes

der vor Kurzem renovierte Bahnhof – kompakte Beschreibungen.

  • Adjectives
B2

Temporal and modal subordinate clauses:sobald, solange, indem

sobald, solange, indem– time and manner.

  • Syntax
B2

Contrast and proportion: während and je … desto

Contrasts and proportions: während, je … desto.

  • Syntax
B2

Conditional clauses with falls and sofern

falls, sofern — stating conditions formally.

  • Syntax
B2

anstatt … zu and ohne … zu

Ohne nachzudenken, anstatt zu warten – Infinitivsätze.

  • Syntax
B2

Complex dass clauses (die Tatsache, dass …)

die Tatsache, dass … – embedding statements in a noun.

  • Syntax
B2

Two-part connectors – advanced

zwar … aber, nicht nur … sondern auch – finer connections.

  • Syntax
B2

Formal connector adverbs

folglich, dennoch, hingegen – connecting formally.

  • Syntax
B2

Modal particles

doch, mal, eben – the little words that make German sound authentic.

  • Particles
B2

Degree particles

ziemlich, ganz, ausgesprochen – scaling intensity.

  • Adverbs
B2

Was für ein …?

Was für ein …! – asking and exclaiming.

  • Pronouns

How the grammar overview works

Each card represents a grammar unit with its topics and typical exercise types — for example rule, gap-fill, or ordering.

The linked texts contain the related grammar topics in at least three sentences. This way you find material that is enough to practise, even if a topic appears more often in other texts.