German Word Order Practice: V2 and Satzklammer

Start building sentences on this page — nothing is gated. Each round gives you five scrambled sentences, you drag or tap the words into order, and you can check your answer immediately. Every sentence shows the rule it tests and an English translation once you are done. Nothing is stored unless you create an account, which is what lets the patterns you keep missing come back later.

Because German marks the main clause by where the conjugated verb sits, not by word order overall. That frees the first slot for whatever you want to emphasise — a time, a place, an object — and the verb still follows it. It is why "Morgen fahre ich" is correct and "Morgen ich fahre" is not: the subject moved aside to keep the verb second.

German often allows more than one order, but this page checks against one target sentence per item, so a defensible alternative can still be marked wrong. Read the rule shown with the answer: if your version keeps the verb in the same position and only moves an adverb or an object, you were probably fine. If it moved the verb, that is the thing worth relearning.

Say the conjunction and the verb together as a pair before you build the middle — "weil … gehe" — and then fill the gap between them. Treating the clause as a bracket you have to close is more reliable than remembering a rule at the moment you need it, and it is the same instinct the Satzklammer needs in main clauses.