German A2: Everyday Life
Past tense and daily life
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- Language
- German
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn German at level A2: 165 cards with full sentences, plus pronunciation, a note on the form and two words from the same context.
At A2 the first day is behind you. Now come the sentences that carry a week: what you did yesterday, what you have to do tomorrow, why you cannot come and what you would rather do instead.
These cards bring the grammar that makes those sentences possible, always inside a whole sentence: the perfect tense, the modal verbs, separable verbs, subordinate clauses with weil and dass, the two-way prepositions and the polite subjunctive.
The back gives the pronunciation in IPA, a usage note and a small word field. The notes name the traps: musst nicht is not must not, and halb acht is half past seven.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Everyday routines” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
You learn German. The cards, the categories and the usage notes are in English, so you never have to learn through a third language.
What you learn
- The perfect tense: haben or sein, and why
- Modal verbs, and why musst nicht is not must not
- Separable verbs and where the prefix ends up
- Subordinate clauses with weil, dass, als and wenn
- Two-way prepositions: an die Wand, an der Wand
The categories
10 categories sort the 165 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Everyday routines
- Work and appointments
- Health and body
- Travel and transport
- Housing and living
- Shopping and money
- Food and going out
- Free time and media
- Feelings and opinions
- Grammar in use
What you get
Here are three of the 165 cards you get when you buy the deck.
With foreign-language content the answers are read aloud as well, so you know how the words and sentences are pronounced.
Question
I get up at six every day.
Answer
Ich stehe jeden Tag um sechs auf.
Note
[ˈaʊ̯fʃteːən] · separable verb: the prefix goes to the end of the sentence · Word field: aufwachen (wake up), aufstehen (get up)
Question
I wash myself in the morning.
Answer
Ich wasche mich morgens.
Note
[ˈvaʃn̩] · reflexive verb: sich waschen, with the accusative pronoun · Word field: sich duschen (shower), sich anziehen (get dressed)
Question
She gets dressed quickly.
Answer
Sie zieht sich schnell an.
Note
[ˈanˌtsiːən] · separable and reflexive at once: sich anziehen · Word field: ausziehen (take off), umziehen (change clothes, move house)
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