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The accusative word in a sentence is the direct object. It also appears after the use of these prepositions. für - For um - Around/for/at (time) durch - Through gegen - Against entlang - Along bis - Until oh...

aus - From bei - At mit - With nach - To (a place) - after/past (time) seit - Since von - From zu - To gegenüber - Opposite außer - Except for

In German, articles are a bit more complicated than in English. Instead of only using 'the', you have 'der', 'die' and 'das' which are all definite articles. 'Der' is masculin, 'die' is feminine and 'das' is...

Think of the noun and its gender as a married couple ! You need to learn the gender of a noun at the same time as learning the noun itself. There are also some tricks to knowing whether a noun is 'der', 'die...

The perfect tense refers to an action that happened in the past. Eg) I played football. She drank water. We went shopping. In german it is formed using an auxilary verb (haben or sein) and the past participl...