German Institute
A1 Grammar
The grammar in your A1 German course at German Institute is the key to your learning success.
In your A1 German course, you will learn to understand everyday expressions and form simple sentences. You will conjugate verbs and ask simple questions about yourself and other people. You will also learn to talk about the past.
Here you will find some free grammar exercises.
A1 Grammar (A1.1)
- Conjugating verbs
- Wh-questions
- Yes/No questions
- Verbs with vowel change
- Definite articles (der, die, das)
- Indefinite articles (ein, eine, ein)
- Negative articles (kein, kein, keine)
- Plural
- Accusative
- Modal verb “can”
- Sentence bracket
- Verb position in the sentence
- Temporal prepositions
- Modal verbs “like” and “would like”
- Compounds (noun + noun)
- Separable verbs
- Inseparable verbs
- Perfect tense with ‘haben’
- Perfect tense with ‘sein’
- Perfect tense with ‘haben’ and ‘sein’
A1 Grammar (A1.2)
- Local prepositions
- Possessive articles
- Temporal prepositions
- Verbs with dative
- Personal pronouns
- Word formation ‘un-‘
- Prepositions: “with” and “without”
- Imperative
- Preterite ‘war’, ‘hatte’
- Perfect tense inseparable verbs
- Personal pronouns in accusative, dative
- Preterite/Perfect
- Modal verbs
- Comparison
- Conjunctions: “but”, “but rather”, “and”, “or”
- Conjunctions: “for”, “because”
- Word formation ‘-less’
- Subjunctive II
- Ordinal numbers
- Review
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A1 Books
Are you looking for A1 grammar exercises? We recommend the following books.
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A1 Vocabulary
Do you want to practice your vocabulary? German Institute offers you some free exercises for this.
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A1 German Course
In an A1 German course at German Institute, you will learn German grammar systematically. You can take your course at school or online. Our courses are communicative and primarily aimed at academics.


