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There are 4 cases in German but for GCSE we only need to focus on the nominative, the accusative and the dative. Cases are mostly concerned with nouns, which are objects such as 'the ball' and they change...

Although we, in English, don't really use a different form when speaking formally, Germans distinguish between the formal and the informal depending on who they are speaking to. The first basic rule of th...

The perfect tense is like a sandwich. The subject pronoun, then a conjugated auxiliary verb which is either haben or sein in agreement with the subject pronoun is the at the beginning of the sentence. The...

Start early and write down what you want to say. Check that it meets all the required learning outcomes and the markscheme. Next practise reading it out loud (you could read it to someone who is a native ...

As a general rule, verbs that in the present have an akkusative object form the perfect with haben. The rest with sein. For example:

The table breaks = Der Tisch bricht. [ Subject Nominative: tisch...