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A1 practice exam

25questions
20minutes
25topics

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A1

25 questions, in order

25 questions drawn from 25 topics at A1. Pick an option; correct answers open when the exam ends.

It’s 09:00 in the morning and you see your boss at work.

Correct answer Guten Morgen. Morning, until about 11:00. Gute Nacht is said when going to bed.

How is Wasser pronounced?

Correct answer VAH-sa. W gives the English v sound; the final -er becomes an open “a”.

Sie kommen aus Berlin. — how many meanings can it have?

Correct answer Two. The verb takes -en, which rules out “she.” At the start of a sentence the capital-letter clue doesn’t work, so it is either “they” or formal “you.”

What number is siebenundsechzig?

Correct answer 67. The unit is said first: sieben (7) und sechzig (60).

Ich helfe ___ Frau.

Correct answer der. helfen takes the dative, and the dative of die Frau is der Frau. That der is not masculine — it is the feminine dative doing a second job.

Du ___ in Berlin. (wohnen)

Correct answer wohnst. The stem is wohn-, the du ending is -st. An e slips in only when the stem ends in -t/-d/-m/-n.

Du ___ nach Hause. (fahren)

Correct answer fährst. The a→ä pattern: the vowel changes in the du line.

Du ___ sehr nett.

Correct answer bist. The du row ends in -st. bis is a preposition meaning “until”, not a verb.

You’re taking the train to Berlin. Which one?

Correct answer fahre. If you go by vehicle the verb is fahren; gehen means going on foot. The vowel change happens only in du fährst · er fährt, ich fahre stays plain.

Ich ___ gut Deutsch sprechen.

Correct answer kann. With a modal verb ich takes no ending — there is no ich kanne. ich and er are identical.

Ich ___ dich morgen ___ . (anrufen)

Correct answer rufe … an. The conjugated part is in second position, the prefix at the end of the sentence. Everything in between (dich morgen) sits inside the brackets.

For du: “Wait!” →

Correct answer Warte! The stem ends in -t, so the final -e is required.

Which one is spelled correctly?

Correct answer Brot and Milch are nouns, so they are capitalised. kaufe is a verb and stays lower case.

das Buch → plural?

Correct answer die Bücher. It is the -er type, and because the stem has a u, the umlaut comes too.

Das ist Ali. ___ Frau heißt Ayşe.

Correct answer Seine. The owner is Ali (male) → sein; die Frau is feminine, so -e.

interessant → Komparativ?

Correct answer interessanter. Even though the word is long, the ending is the same; German has no more split.

Which word is the opposite of jung?

Correct answer alt. For people the pair is jung ↔ alt (young ↔ old). neu is the end of the pair for things: neu ↔ alt (new ↔ old).

He drives fast.

Correct answer schnell. An adverb takes no ending; German has no equivalent of -ly.

Das Geschenk ist ___ dich.

Correct answer für. dich is Akkusativ, so you need one of the Akkusativ prepositions. mit · von · bei all take Dativ (mit dir).

Ich ___ gestern ins Kino gegangen. (I went to the cinema yesterday)

Correct answer bin. gehen is movement from A to B, so it takes sein. Your English reflex reaches for «have» — that is exactly the one place English will not help you.

Ich trinke ___ Kaffee.

Correct answer keinen. A noun without an article is being negated → kein. der Kaffee is masculine and in object position, so it is Akkusativ: keinen.

Where do you live? →

Correct answer Wo wohnst du? The verb follows the question word, and the subject drops to third place.

Which one is “I’m going to the cinema today.”?

Correct answer Heute gehe ich ins Kino. When a time word comes first, the conjugated verb stays in 2nd place and the subject moves behind it. The first option is English word order, the third is subordinate-clause order.

The pharmacy is on the right. →

Correct answer Die Apotheke ist rechts. There is no movement, it states a place — no nach.

You just walked in from the snow. What do you say?

Correct answer Mir ist kalt. Box 1 — the cold is happening to you, so you go in the dative and the sentence has no subject. Ich bin kalt describes your personality. Ich habe kalt is the French pattern (j’ai froid) and does not exist in German.

Unanswered questions count as wrong.