Forty words to start with
Each spin picks an everyday word and asks for the German, with four answers. Press SPIN! and pick:
The wrong answers are other German words from the same theme, which is what makes it a test rather than a guess.
Four themes
Greetings, food and drink, out and about, numbers and time. Click a group to put it on the wheel or take it off:
Open a group to untick what you know or to add words of your own:
Keep the run going
Score, In a row and Best run are under the wheel, and Take the right ones off the wheel turns a theme into a list to clear:
A word about nouns
German nouns come with a gender – der, die or das – and the words here are written without it, because the article changes with the case and a quiz that insisted on one would be teaching grammar rather than words. Learn the word here, and the article with the sentence it lives in.