Sorry, ich bin gerade beschäftigt. Ich bin gleich fertig. Gerade and gleich are very common in everyday German, and they are easy to mix up. In this lesson, Luzi from YourGermanteacher explains the simple difference: gerade is about now or just now, gleich is about a moment from now.

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How about making your German learning significantly more efficient? Verbs are the backbone of any sentence and in this German video lesson, we reveal the Top 50 most common used German verbs - the true workhorses of a language.

Verbs Are the Backbone of Every German Sentence

Verbs are the backbone...

The verb sein is not only the most important verb in German, you can also combine it with other words, and Germans do that every day in spoken German. If you want to understand Germans better and sound more German, these combinations will help you. This lesson covers 14 of them: nine that you can ...

You probably know all the words in these combinations, but do you know what they mean when you put them together? This lesson from Johannes covers 10 combinations that are really important, because they are used all the time in spoken German. Understanding them is one thing. If you want to sound m...

"Erst" and "schon" are two small German words that do a big job: they tell your listener whether you think something is early or late. The tricky part is that "early" and "late" are about perception, not the clock — what feels late to you might feel early to someone else, and German expects you to...

Quick Test First

How would you say "Do you know the way?" in German — "Kennst du den Weg?" or "Weißt du den Weg?" (Answer: both are actually correct here — exactly the kind of exception that makes this topic tricky.)

In English, "to know" is just one verb. In German, you have two: kennen and wisse...

Many German mistakes do not come from hard grammar, but from small things that work differently in your own language. Johannes picked 10 common misunderstandings that learners ask about again and again in the comments, from leben and wohnen to the false friend eventuell. Each one is short, and eac...

Thirty irregular verbs is all you need to cover the A2 level, and this lesson goes through every one of them. The verbs come in alphabetical order, each with its meaning, its participle and an example sentence. The video suggests that you write your own list while you watch, and that is still the ...

Many German verbs come with a fixed preposition, and you have to learn them together. This lesson teaches the 18 verbs with prepositions that are important at A2 level and are often used in proficiency exams. They are in alphabetical order, each with the case that follows the preposition and an ex...