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In German we have 6 tenses:1 for the present tense, 3 for the past tense and two describe something in the future. We call them Praesens, Perfekt, Praeteritum, Plusquamperfekt , Futur 1 and Futur 2. The firs...

In German, there are lots of different ways to say ‘to’: ‘nach’, ‘zu’, ‘in’ etc. Unfortunately, you do just have to learn when to use each one by memorising the rules. Learning individual examples also helps...

The technical rule used for inversion in German is that the verb always comes in the second position (as the second word in a sentence). For example, in the sentence ' Ich sehe das Haus ' (I see the house) '...

In German, capital letters are only used for nouns and names and after full stops. You can recognize nouns by spotting articles in front of them (e.g der, die, das / ein, eine). It is important to remember t...

You need to use the conjugation form of haben or sein (if it involves movement or a change of state , e.g. freezing or falling asleep). Haben :ich habe du hast wir haben ihr habt sie/Sie haben Sein :ich bin ...