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Beginner vocabulary, organised by topic. Each list is complete, includes pronunciation, and explains the pattern behind the words.
Beginner German topics
- Numbers Count from 1 to 100, and the pattern behind every number.
- Greetings Hello, goodbye, and knowing which one is too casual.
- Colors The everyday colors, with the endings they change into.
- Days of the week All seven days, plus how to say something happens on one.
- Months The twelve months and the seasons around them.
- Basic words The first words worth knowing, in the order they come up.
- Basic phrases Short sentences that carry you through a real conversation.
- Question words Who, what, where, when, why and how.
- Common verbs The verbs you reach for before you know any grammar.
- Family Mother, father, and everyone at the table.
- Time and dates Telling the time, and saying which day you mean.
- Polite phrases Please, thank you, sorry, and when each one is expected.
- Alphabet and pronunciation Every letter as it is said, the spelling alphabet, and the sounds English speakers get wrong.
- Travel phrases Station, hotel, directions, shopping and the sentences you need in each.
- Food and drink Menu words, ordering, paying, and what to ask when you cannot eat something.
- Der, die, das The endings that fix a noun's gender, the ones that break the rule, and the four cases.
More German topics are in preparation. These are the ones that are complete.
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