German Words, One Page Each
Each of these 100 German words has its own page — the memory-palace picture we drew for it, the mnemonic that makes the gender stick, pronunciation audio, and example sentences in German and English.
Looking for the complete level list instead? The A1 word list has every A1 word in one scrollable grid. The pages here are the deep dive on the words we have illustrated so far.
Unit 1
58 words- am on (days/times)
- Artikel article
- Auf Wiedersehen! Goodbye!
- aus from, out of
- Automat machine, vending machine
- Bankautomat ATM
- Bild picture, image
- Buch book
- Buchstabe letter (of the alphabet)
- buchstabieren to spell
- Computer computer
- deutsch German
- Deutschland Germany
- Dienstag Tuesday
- Donnerstag Thursday
- Familie family
- feminin feminine
- Frage question
- fragen to ask
- Freitag Friday
- glauben to believe
- Guten Tag! Good day!
- Hallo! Hello!
- Heft notebook, exercise book
- heißen to be called
- Konjugation conjugation
- Kuli ballpoint pen
- leicht easy, light
- lernen to learn
- maskulin masculine
- Mensch person, human being
- Mittwoch Wednesday
- Montag Monday
- nein no
- neutral neuter
- noch still, yet
- Nomen noun
- Papier paper
- Person person
- Radio radio
- Samstag Saturday
- Satz sentence
- schreiben to write
- Sonntag Sunday
- sprechen to speak
- Stift pen, pencil
- super super, great
- Tafel blackboard
- Tasche bag
- Uhr clock, watch
- Verb verb
- Vormittag late morning
- wann when
- wer who
- wie how
- willkommen welcome
- woher where from
- Wortstellung word order
Unit 2
42 words- allein alone
- Antwort answer
- arbeiten to work
- Architekt architect (male)
- Architektin architect (female)
- auch also, too
- Ausland abroad, foreign country
- Bruder brother
- Cousin cousin (male)
- Cousine cousin (female)
- dann then
- dein your (informal)
- Designer designer (male)
- Designerin designer (female)
- doch yes (contradicting), but
- dreißig thirty
- Einzelkind only child
- Eltern parents
- euer your (plural informal)
- Foto photo
- Fotograf photographer
- Frau woman
- Freund friend
- Freundin friend (female)
- Fußball (spielen) to play football
- gern gladly, with pleasure
- geschieden divorced
- Geschwister siblings
- Großeltern grandparents
- Großmutter grandmother
- Großvater grandfather
- gut good
- hören to hear
- hundert hundred
- ihr (Pl.) their
- Informatiker IT specialist (male)
- Informatikerin IT specialist (female)
- Ingenieur engineer (male)
- Ingenieurin engineer (female)
- international international
- ja yes
- jetzt now
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