Apprenez le/la German naturellement à partir du/de la English avec l'IA. Traduisez le texte source English en German, écoutez la prononciation, comprenez chaque mot et pratiquez l'expression orale. Gratuit, sans inscription requise.
German and English are sister languages within the Germanic family, which gives you an enormous vocabulary head start: "Haus" = house, "Wasser" = water, "Mann" = man, "helfen" = help, "bringen" = bring. What differs is the grammar machinery: German cases, three genders, and word-order rules (especially the verb at the end of subordinate clauses) that modern English has almost completely dropped. You will speak German far earlier than a non-Germanic speaker would, but you must unlearn the newly simplified English grammar and rebuild archaic patterns like "the man whom I gave the book to".
English has nearly no case system; German has four cases marked on articles, adjectives, and nouns. English almost always uses SVO; German uses SVO in main clauses but SOV in subordinate clauses: "I think that he is going home" → "Ich denke, dass er nach Hause geht". English and German both form the passive and perfect with auxiliary verbs, and both use separable and modal verb constructions — German just enforces stricter word order rules with them.
German vowels are pure and tense: say "ee" and "oo" without the English off-glide (no "ee-uh").
The umlauts ö and ü do not exist in English — round your lips while saying e and i.
German r is uvular (back of throat), not the English rhotic r or a rolled r.
German z is pronounced "ts" (Zeit = "tsait"), and German w/v are swapped from English: "Was" sounds like English "vahs".
Every German consonant is pronounced — final -er, -en, -el are not swallowed. Say "Wasser" fully, not "wassuh".
Hello
→ Hallo / Guten Tag
I would like some water.
→ Ich möchte Wasser.
Thank you.
→ Danke.
I'm sorry.
→ Es tut mir leid.
How are you?
→ Wie geht es dir?
I didn't understand that.
→ Das habe ich nicht verstanden.
How much is this?
→ Was kostet das?
I am learning German.
→ Ich lerne Deutsch.
I'm from England.
→ Ich komme aus England.
Could you speak more slowly?
→ Können Sie bitte langsamer sprechen?
das Wasser
water
der Tisch
table
die Tür
door
das Haus
house
der Mann
man
die Frau
woman
das Kind
child
essen
to eat
trinken
to drink
gehen
to go
kommen
to come
sprechen
to speak
sehen
to see
gut
good
schlecht
bad
groß
big
klein
small
heute
today
morgen
tomorrow / morning
bitte
please
English retains only traces of cases (he/him, who/whom). German has a full system: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive. "der Mann" becomes "den Mann" (acc.), "dem Mann" (dat.), "des Mannes" (gen.). Learn the article with the noun and treat cases like verb conjugation — a grid to drill, not to rationalize.
In a main clause the conjugated verb must be the SECOND element: "Ich lerne Deutsch" — but "Heute lerne ich Deutsch" (today learn I German). In subordinate clauses introduced by dass/weil/wenn, the verb goes to the END. English does neither, so practice by translating with the verb-counting rule in mind.
"anfangen" (to begin) splits in the main clause: "Ich fange an" (I begin). English split infinitive intuition ("to turn on") helps here — think of "turn ... on" and you have the German pattern.
English says "go home" with no preposition. German demands "nach Hause gehen". Small fixed phrases like this are best learned as vocabulary chunks, not translated word-by-word.
I drink water.
→ Ich trinke Wasser.
I would like some water.
→ Ich möchte Wasser.
I am learning German.
→ Ich lerne Deutsch.
She goes home.
→ Sie geht nach Hause.
This is my book.
→ Das ist mein Buch.
I like the food.
→ Das Essen schmeckt mir gut.
I think that he is going home.
→ Ich denke, dass er nach Hause geht.
Ich möchte einen Wasser.
Ich möchte Wasser.
Water is uncountable in German like English — no article needed. If you order "einen Wasser" you are asking for a bottle/cup idiomatically, but "Ich möchte Wasser" is the natural choice.
Ich bin nicht verstanden.
Ich habe das nicht verstanden.
English "I understood" becomes the perfect tense in German — never the simple present passive. German uses "haben" + past participle, not a passive construction.
Er ist gehen nach Hause.
Er geht nach Hause.
English's present continuous "is going" does not exist in German. Use the simple present "geht" (or, for emphasis, "ist dabei zu gehen").
Heute ich lerne Deutsch.
Heute lerne ich Deutsch.
When a time word opens the sentence, the verb stays second. "Heute" takes position one, so the verb follows immediately before the subject.
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I would like some tea.
Suggested: Ich möchte Tee.
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I am going home.
Suggested: Ich gehe nach Hause.
Add the correct article (der/die/das)
… Wasser, … Mann, … Frau, … Kind, … Tisch, … Tür
Suggested: das Wasser, der Mann, die Frau, das Kind, der Tisch, die Tür
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I think that you are right.
Suggested: Ich denke, dass du Recht hast.
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Could you speak more slowly, please?
Suggested: Können Sie bitte langsamer sprechen?
The Foreign Service Institute classifies German as a Category II language requiring roughly 36 weeks (750 hours) of classroom study for professional proficiency. Vocabulary recognition is fast because of shared Germanic roots, but mastering the case system and word order takes sustained practice with feedback — exactly what the practice mode here provides.
Both descend from West Germanic. English kept and reshaped the vocabulary but lost most of its inflectional grammar under the influence of Old Norse and French. German kept the inflections (cases, genders, verb endings) nearly intact. So the roots match, but the grammar "machinery" diverged.
Both. Start with the four default article patterns (der/die/das + accusative + dative + genitive) as a drill grid, then absorb them naturally through the word-by-word breakdowns and example sentences in this tool. Pattern exposure beats memorizing tables.
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