Master German Verbs
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Master German verb conjugations with 3,572 verbs across all conjugationgroups: the definitive reference and quiz app for German learners. FEATURES Complete Conjugation Reference Browse and search 3,572 German verbs with full conjugations across fourteen conjugationgroups: • Simple: Präsens Indikativ, Präteritum Indikativ, Imperativ • Konjunktiv: Präsens Konjunktiv I, Präteritum Konjunktiv II • Compound: Perfekt, Plusquamperfekt, Futur (Indikativ, Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II) • Participles: Perfektpartizip, Präsenspartizip Three standard varieties: North Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with Swiss ß-free spelling. Interactive Quiz Test your knowledge with timed 30-question quizzes: • Regular difficulty: Focus on everyday conjugationgroups • Ridiculous difficulty: Master the full range, with a 2× score multiplier • Audio feedback for correct and incorrect answers Conjugation Tutor (Apple Intelligence) Get one-on-one help from an Apple Intelligence-powered tutor, right on your device: • Ask conjugation questions in plain English: "How do you say 'I would have sung' in German?" • Receive clear explanations of conjugation rules and patterns • Requires Apple Intelligence; all processing stays on-device Retro Arcade Game Konjugieren also features a German-themed retro arcade shooter. Tilt your device to steer a pretzel and fire German-flag bullets at a 6×6 grid of top hats, beer steins, dachshunds, and cuckoo clocks. Collect power-ups, dodge dive-bombers, and survive rotating mechanics. How long can you hold the line? Game Center Leaderboards Compete globally on the way to conjugation mastery. Widgets, Shortcuts, and More • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: Verb of the Day and interactive Conjugation Quiz • Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight integration for quick access to any verb • Control Center controls for launching quizzes and random verbs • Live Activities for quiz and game sessions on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Ablaut Highlighting Watch vowel changes come alive. Strong verbs display their ablaut patterns visually: • singen → sang → gesungen • sehen → sah → gesehen Accessibility and Localization Fully accessible to VoiceOver users, with ablaut changes announced clearly and semantic headings throughout. Toggle conjugationgroup names between German and English. Designed for iPad Every view adapts to iPad's generous screen: multi-column grids, side-by-side conjugation tables, and family showcase panels. EDUCATIONAL DEPTH Konjugieren goes beyond simple conjugation tables. Each conjugationgroup includes detailed articles explaining formation, usage, and historical context, with literary examples from Goethe, Kafka, Mann, the Grundgesetz, and the Luther Bible. Every verb ships an example sentence, most of them drawn from published German writing. Deep Etymologies Trace each verb to its roots, nearly all the way to Proto-Indo-European, with cognates from English, Latin, Greek, Gothic, and Old Norse. Browse seven ways: strong, weak, mixed, -ieren, separable, inseparable, and by ablaut group. Conjugate with confidence. Learn German verbs the right way. A PERSONAL TRIBUTE Konjugieren was created by Josh Adams as a tribute to his grandfather, Clifford August Schmiesing (1904–1944). Cliff was born in Minster, Ohio, a town where German was the language of daily life. All four of his grandparents had immigrated from Germany, and he grew up steeped in that heritage, attending public schools taught by German-speaking nuns. He became a doctor, specializing in obstetrics. When America entered World War II, Cliff served as an Army doctor, treating soldiers wounded in North Africa, Sicily, and Southern Italy. He died in Oran, Algeria, on January 21, 1944. Josh's mother, Ryan, was just fourteen months old. Though Ryan never truly knew her father, Cliff's love for his family has echoed through the generations. Konjugieren honors Cliff and the language he and his ancestors spoke: German.
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Every verb in Konjugieren carries a frequency rank, shown on its screen and used as the default order of the verb list, so that a beginner meets sein and haben long before verdrießen. When version 1.3 tripled the corpus, the 2,582 new verbs took estimated ranks, because measuring them required permission from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, publisher of the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, the standard scholarly dictionary of German. The Akademie has granted it. The whole corpus was queried against DWDS in a single pass, and 3,489 of the 3,572 verbs now carry a measured rank. The estimates were wrong in ways only measurement could reveal: half the corpus moved at least 466 places. Verzeihen climbs from #3535 to #1347, behindern from #2979 to #697, and bescheren from #3450 to #790, while heraufgeben falls from #919 to #3570. The 63 most common verbs did not move at all. The remaining 83 verbs are compounds for which DWDS has no entry, so they keep their estimates. The Credits article gains a Verb Frequency section in the wording the Akademie supplied, with a link to DWDS's own account of how it counts words. Konjugieren never queries DWDS itself: every rank was computed once, during development, and compiled into the app. The Terminology article's Conjugationgroup section, which explains the word Konjugieren coined for a family of conjugations sharing a tense, a mood, and a voice, now reports the answer the DWDS lexicographers gave when asked whether an established term existed. One does: Flexionsparadigma. The lexicographers themselves call it deep specialist jargon, so Konjugieren keeps its coinage. The two terms are also not the same size: a Flexionsparadigma is every conjugation a verb has, so a conjugationgroup is arguably a subset of one. The section then traces both halves of the word. Flexion, from Latin flectere, "to bend", has a native twin in Beugung, built on biegen, so German draws the bending metaphor twice. Paradigma is Greek for a showing side by side, which is what the verb screen does with six conjugations at once, and its root also gave dictionary, verdict, index, judge, zeigen, token, and teach.
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- Josh Adams
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- 81.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
- Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
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- English and German
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