Free German Adjective Endings Worksheets
Make printable German adjective endings worksheets for the cases and ending types your class is on. Five exercises cover the endings from two sides: short sentences where students add the ending (Ich kaufe ein neu__ Auto.), and the tables themselves, to fill in or to keep as a one-page chart. Every line of the sentence drills is a new sentence, dealt evenly across the table cells you choose, and each fill-in exercise can come with an answer key on separate pages. Print on A4 or US Letter or save as PDF, free and with no signup.
Five German adjective endings exercises
Each worksheet uses one of five exercises.
- Adjective endings. Short sentences, one per line, with the ending to fill in: Ich kaufe ein neu__ Auto. Every line is a new sentence, from the same drill as our German adjective endings quiz.
- Articles and endings. The same kind of sentence, with the article's ending to fill in as well: Ich helfe d__ alt__ Mann. Where the article has no ending, as ein in ein alter Mann, students write a dash.
- Longer sentences. 375 sentences from A1 to B2, taken from the bank behind our German case worksheets and filtered by level.
- Fill in the tables. The tables as phrases with the ending left blank (der nett__ Mann, ein nett__ Mann), on one page, with the key on another.
- Endings chart. The three-question flowchart and the three filled tables on one page, to keep as a reference.
The first two drill one cell of the tables per line, so a wrong answer points straight at the cell to review. The longer sentences put the same endings into whole sentences at the class's level.
Choosing what each worksheet drills
Choose an exercise, then the ending types and the cases. The ending types are the three tables: after der, dieser and jeder (weak), after ein, kein and mein (mixed), and no article (strong). For the first two exercises you can also choose masculine, feminine, neuter or plural, so a worksheet can drill only the dative plural, or only the neuter. For the longer sentences you choose a level instead, from A1 to B2. Fill in the tables uses only the ending types, and the chart needs no choices at all.
Press Create worksheet, and the print preview sets the rest. Choose 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 lines, and press Shuffle for new sentences. Add a hint after each noun with its gender, as in Auto (n.), or leave it out. Then pick A4 or US Letter, and print with the answer key on separate pages or without it.
A new sentence for every line
The first two exercises don't print from a fixed list. Each line is a new sentence made for one cell of the tables, and the cells you choose come up in turn, so a worksheet on the dative with all four columns ticked spreads its lines evenly across masculine, feminine, neuter and plural. Shuffle deals a new set, so each student in a class can get a different German adjective endings worksheet on the same endings.
The sentences come from the same drill as the quiz: 126 everyday nouns, 47 adjectives and 68 sentence frames, more than 60,000 sentences in all. Every pairing of noun, adjective and frame was reviewed for natural German.
The tables and the one-page chart
Fill in the tables prints the endings as phrases with a gap where the ending goes: der nett__ Mann, ein nett__ Mann, and so on through the four cases. Use it after you've taught a table, or as a test of all three. The key is on its own page, so you can hand out the tables and keep the answers.
The Endings chart puts the flowchart and the three filled tables on one page. The flowchart asks three questions in order:
- Is there an article in front of the adjective?
- Does the article have an ending of its own?
- Is it the nominative singular, or the feminine or neuter accusative?
Students follow the questions to the ending, then check it in the tables. The German adjective endings chart explains each step, with the exceptions.
Free German adjective endings worksheets for classrooms
Every worksheet prints in black and white, with a line for a name and the date. Print it, or save it as a PDF, on A4 or US Letter. There's no signup, and teachers may photocopy the worksheets for their classes.
To practice on screen, the German adjective endings quiz asks one sentence at a time and gives the reason after each answer. For the articles themselves, the German case worksheets drill der, den, dem and des before the endings come in.
Frequently asked questions
Are these German adjective endings worksheets free?
Yes. There's no signup, and teachers may photocopy them for their classes.
Is there a German adjective endings PDF?
Yes. Every worksheet you make prints or saves as a PDF, on A4 or US Letter. The Endings chart fits the flowchart and all three tables on one page.
Do the worksheets come with an answer key?
Yes, on separate pages, so you can print the worksheet without it. The Endings chart is the one exercise without a key, since it's already filled in.
Can I make a worksheet for one case or one table?
Yes. Choose only the dative, for example, or only the endings after ein, kein and mein. In the first two exercises you can narrow it further to masculine, feminine, neuter or plural.
What do students write when the article has no ending?
They write a dash. In the Articles and endings exercise, ein in ein alter Mann has no ending, so the article's gap takes a dash and the adjective's takes -er.
What are the longer sentences?
There are 375 of them, from A1 to B2, taken from the bank behind our German case worksheets. You choose the level, and students add the adjective endings.
What does the gender hint do?
It prints each noun's gender after it, as in Auto (n.). It's there for the first two exercises, and you can leave it out.
How many lines can a worksheet have?
You can choose 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30. Shuffle makes a new set of sentences with the same choices.
Licenses and credits
Noun genders and endings come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The sentences are written for NexaProva.