German Modal Verbs Practice

Start typing on this page — nothing is gated. Each round gives you five prompts across the six modals in the present and the past, you type the conjugated form, and the answer appears immediately. Nothing is stored unless you create an account, which is what lets the forms you keep missing come back later.

The six modals — können, müssen, dürfen, sollen, wollen and mögen — plus möchten, which appears alongside them because learners meet it that early and use it constantly. Strictly it is a Konjunktiv II form of mögen rather than a seventh modal, but it behaves like one in a sentence and is worth practicing with the set.

Reciting a table and producing a form under time pressure are different skills, and only the second one transfers to speaking. Typing the form into a sentence — which is what this page asks — is closer to the real thing than reading a paradigm. If the errors cluster in the singular, that is expected: the singular changes its stem vowel and the plural does not.

The check is exact on the conjugated form, including umlauts — "konnen" is not accepted for "können", because the umlaut is the difference between the present and the Präteritum in several of these verbs. If you cannot type umlauts easily, that is worth fixing before you go much further; it will be the difference between two tenses more than once.