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Haben and sein are used as the auxiliary verbs in the perfect tense before the past participle. Whether you need haben or sein depends on the meaning of the verb you are putting into the perfect tense. Most ...

First of all, don't worry if you're feeling overwhelmed by the amount of German vocabulary you need to know – sometimes it can feel like quite a lot, especially if you haven't been learning the language all ...

In German, all nouns are masculine (der), feminine (die), neuter (das) or plural (die). On the whole you need to learn the genders individually, however there some guidelines that can help you.. Nouns that a...

Although we don't use them in English, cases are really important in German! Every noun/pronoun in a German sentence is in a particular case, depending on its function in the sentence. There are 4 cases – Th...

In German there are three genders for nouns: masculine, feminine and neuter. There are some rules for each gender regarding how the words are formed, however the best bet is to learn each gender with the wor...