CEFR C1
German Grammar — C1
Every published C1 grammar topic: read the explanation, then practise.
45 grammar topics
- Distinguish definite signals, quantity words, and variable patterns with strong and weak adjective endings.3 exercises
- Distinguish reason and counter-reason across neutral, spoken, and elevated connectors.2 exercises
- Express real results, highlighted degree, and unrealized alternatives with correct word order.3 exercises
- Express benefit, contrast, means, evidence, purpose, and substitution with precise formal prepositions.2 exercises
- Form subjectless passive clauses and control es, the first position, and agreement.3 exercises
- Distinguish unknown reference from free choice and decline person, article, and plural forms.2 exercises
- Form past assumptions with active and passive perfect infinitives.2 exercises
- Check object type, agentivity, and fixed meaning before forming a passive.3 exercises
- Use the gerundive, bekommen/kriegen passive, and functional verb phrases precisely, respecting modality, recipient role, register, and agent constraints.2 exercises
- Form the special German perfect with modals, sehen, hören, and lassen.2 exercises
- Distinguish spatial, temporal, quantitative, relational, and fixed meanings of frequent German prepositions.2 exercises
- Classify spatial, temporal, quantitative, relational, and idiomatic readings in context.2 exercises
- Master preposed, postposed, and circumposed patterns plus position-dependent case and meaning.2 exercises
- Master word order, ge-/zu placement, and semantic functions of German verb prefixes.3 exercises
- Report sources neutrally and mark reference aspects with the correct preposition, case, and position.2 exercises
- Form unreal comparisons and unrealized consequences with als ob, als wenn, als, als dass, beinahe, and fast.3 exercises
- Distinguish separable and inseparable readings of um-, unter-, über-, wieder-, durch- and multi-prefix verbs.3 exercises
- Learn German conjunctionless conditional clauses and unreal wishes with the finite verb first. Distinguish conditions from wishes through mood, particles, punctuation, and context.4 exercises
- Manage given and new information in German sentences. Use definiteness, the middle field, and fronting to create cohesion and marked focus.3 exercises
- Master modal passive constructions in the present, past, perfect, pluperfect, future, and subjunctive II. Recognise the substitute infinitive and multi-infinitive cluster.3 exercises
- Master formal German genitive-governing verbs, patterns with an accusative person plus a genitive charge, and modern prepositional alternatives.2 exercises
- Use Futur I and II for future events, future completion, and assumptions about the present and past.2 exercises
- Integrate German tenses through temporal relations, text types, historical present, and context-driven perspective shifts.2 exercises
- Use man, alle, jeder, jemand, niemand, and irgendjemand with correct case, number, and subsequent personal or possessive reference.2 exercises
- Master regular and irregular comparison, attributive and adverbial superlatives, als/wie, absolute comparatives, and compound superlatives.2 exercises
- Form Konjunktiv I in formal indirect speech, use Konjunktiv II as an unambiguous substitute, and report statements and questions with correct perspective shifts.2 exercises
- Form past indirect speech with habe/sei plus past participle, modal infinitives, and passive forms; convert direct and indirect reports with correct temporal reference.2 exercises
- Distinguish wenn, falls, sofern, and formal conditional formulas as well as während, wohingegen, and anstatt dass; also form appropriate V1 conditionals.2 exercises
- Express method and means with indem/dadurch dass, use wodurch as a continuative connector, and distinguish method from cause.2 exercises
- Master zu-infinitive groups, omission after modals, perception and movement verbs, separable zu placement, and perfect/passive infinitives.2 exercises
- Report polite requests, instructions, commands, and prohibitions with mögen, sollen, müssen, and dürfen, and mark rumors or distanced self-claims with sollen/wollen, including past and passive forms.3 exercises
- Use dessen/deren according to the antecedent, decline the following articleless noun by its clause function, and form complex prepositional relatives.2 exercises
- Use formal noun–verb constructions, keep their verb-bound placement, and paraphrase them with simple verbs.2 exercises
- Transform temporal relations without changing sequence, duration, or time reference.2 exercises
- Transform reason, consequence, concession, and contrast across nominal, adverbial, and clausal forms.2 exercises
- Transform method, condition, purpose, missing action, and alternative precisely.2 exercises
- Choose between dass clauses and zu-infinitives at C1 using subject identity and control, including clause placement and perfect infinitives.2 exercises
- Distinguish um … zu from damit and ohne/anstatt … zu from ohne/anstatt dass by subject control, time reference, and register.2 exercises
- Master local and continuing relative clauses, was and wo(r)+preposition, generalizing wer/was constructions, and als for time, role, and function.3 exercises
- Distinguish active, processual, and stative functional verb constructions, shift perspective, and paraphrase semantic roles.2 exercises
- Distinguish local and temporal da, pronominal da(r)-forms, and discourse uses of dabei, damit, dadurch, and related connectors.2 exercises
- Use commas with subordinate and relative clauses, coordinated clauses, lists, appositions, and infinitive groups, including meaning-changing ambiguity.2 exercises
- Understand dislocation, resumptive pronouns, reductions, separated directional forms, and afterthoughts, and convert neutrally between spoken and standard written registers.2 exercises
- Compress clauses into precise noun phrases and unpack overloaded nominal style into clear clauses.3 exercises
- Parse layered noun phrases and transform participial, relative, and modal attributes without changing meaning.3 exercises