German grammar on repeat¶
@ImmerWiederholenBot is a Telegram bot for German grammar. It gives you short exercises on cases, prepositions and verb forms. The bot brings each exercise back at growing intervals, so that you don't forget the rule.
Try it here¶
This is what the exercises in the bot look like. Choose the right option.
How it works¶
- Choose your topics: cases, prepositions, verb forms and more.
- Answer the questions. After each answer, the bot shows an explanation. Often you then type the phrase from memory, with no options to choose from. Read more on the page "Learning path".
- The bot brings each exercise back at growing intervals, for example after a day, after a week, after a month. After a mistake, the exercise comes back the same day.
This method is called spaced repetition. It helps you remember a rule for a long time, not only until the end of the lesson.
Verb forms¶
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Präteritum, Partizip II, the haben/sein auxiliary, and an English gloss — in one table.
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Which past tense to use, when — speaking vs. written German.
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fahren, sprechen, sehen and more — du/er forms with an English gloss.
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Separable and inseparable prefixes
wiederholt or wiedergeholt: why some verbs take ge- in the Partizip II and others don't.
Nouns¶
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The suffixes that reliably give away the gender, and how plurals are formed.
Adjectives¶
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der heiße, ein heißer, heißer Kaffee — the endings after der, after ein and with no article.
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gut → besser → am besten — umlaut and irregular forms in one table.
Cases and prepositions¶
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Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ, Genitiv — what each case does, in plain terms.
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Which prepositions always take Akkusativ, and which always take Dativ.
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Which preposition and which case (Akkusativ/Dativ) a verb takes — with a gloss.
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Verbs with Dativ (no preposition)
helfen, danken, gefallen and verbs with two objects (geben, zeigen...).
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Nach, in, zu, auf, an — which one to use, based on the type of destination.
Pronouns¶
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mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, Ihr — declension and which one to use.
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Personal and reflexive pronouns
mich/mir, sich by case — and when you need the reflexive, not the regular one.
Mood¶
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könnte, müsste, dürfte, hätte, wäre, würde — polite requests and unreal conditions.
Sentence structure¶
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Coordinating, conjunctional adverbs, and subordinating — with word order.
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The V2 rule, inversion after deshalb/trotzdem, and subordinate clause order.
Why Immer wiederholen¶
Immer wiederholen! is German for "Always repeat!". The verb wiederholen means "to repeat": Können Sie das bitte wiederholen? (Could you repeat that, please?) In study contexts, it also means "to review": Ich wiederhole die Vokabeln. (I'm reviewing the vocabulary.) The name describes how the bot works. You can learn geschrieben in a minute. But without review, a month later it's easy to write geschreibt again.
Exercises on all of these topics are in the Telegram bot @ImmerWiederholenBot. The bot saves your progress and reminds you when it's time to review.