Free German Verb Conjugation Quiz
Practice German verb conjugation online, one form at a time. Pick the tenses and the verbs, type each form and press Enter, and the quiz marks it right or wrong at once, umlauts included. Keep going as long as you like, then retry only the forms you missed. It's free, needs no signup and works on a phone.
Untick a box to leave those verbs out. A verb is in the quiz when it matches a ticked box in each column. A column with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs.
How the German conjugation quiz works
You set it up in two steps. First tick the tenses you want, from the same 11 as the worksheets. Then choose the verbs. With nothing ticked you get all 600 verbs from the worksheets. Tick boxes to narrow them to regular (weak) verbs, strong verbs, irregular and mixed verbs, the modal verbs, separable verbs, verbs that form the perfect with sein, or verbs always used with sich. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other, so Strong and Separable together give you the strong separable verbs. The quiz shuffles every question into a new order each time, so you can't learn the answers by their order, and it asks for one form at a time, such as “wir · gehen · present perfect”. Type the form and press Enter. It's marked right or wrong at once, and a wrong answer shows you the correct form. A running count of right and wrong answers stays on screen. There is no fixed length, so stop when you've had enough. Press Stop and you get your score and a list of the forms you missed. “Practice my mistakes” then quizzes you on those forms and nothing else.
Umlauts and ß count, capital letters don't
Type “er fahrt” when the answer is “er fährt” and the quiz marks it wrong. Umlauts and ß count the same way accents do in Spanish, and fahrt without the umlaut is a different form (ihr fahrt). You don't need a German keyboard. Buttons on screen type ä, ö, ü and ß, on a laptop or a phone. Capital letters don't matter, and neither does the subject pronoun: wir sind gegangen and sind gegangen both count. Where a form has two correct versions, such as the du imperative geh and gehe, either one is marked right.
Perfekt, separable verbs and sich
Compound, separable and reflexive forms are asked in full. The Perfekt needs its auxiliary, and every verb takes the auxiliary of standard German, so it's ich bin gegangen but ich habe gestanden. Separable verbs are asked the way they are used, with the particle at the end: ich rufe an. Reflexive verbs keep their pronoun, as in ich habe mich gewaschen. All 11 tenses are available, in four groups. The indicative has the present (Präsens), simple past (Präteritum) and future (Futur I). The perfect tenses are the present perfect (Perfekt), past perfect (Plusquamperfekt) and future perfect (Futur II). The subjunctive has Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II, Konjunktiv II with würde and the past Konjunktiv II, and the imperative has the du, ihr and Sie forms. A Präteritum drill for strong verbs takes a few clicks.
How accurate are the forms?
The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked every simple form of all 600 verbs against two independent sources: LanguageTool's German dictionary, which descends from the Morphy lexicon, and the ablaut conjugation engine. Against ablaut, 16,121 forms agreed. The 67 that differed all came from three verbs, and we checked each one by hand: Wiktionary was right every time. One verb needed a choice of meaning before the check: schaffen is quizzed as schaffte, geschafft (to manage), the sense learners need, not schuf (to create). Spelling follows the current rules from the 1996 reform, so the quiz expects muss and lässt, not muß and läßt. There is one limit. Wiktionary also lists some colloquial variants, such as du wäscht beside du wäschst, and we left those out unless an independent source gives them too. So a form you hear in conversation may be marked wrong.
A quiz for you, a worksheet for the class
The quiz is made for one person at a keyboard or a phone, checking answers as they go. If you have a conjugation test coming up, tick only the tenses it covers, such as the Perfekt and the Präteritum, and finish each run with “Practice my mistakes”. For a class, the same verbs and tenses print as German verb conjugation worksheets: fill-in boxes, a printed quick quiz and a verb chart, with answer keys on separate pages. The worksheets give you conjugation exercises on paper, and the quiz gives you the same conjugation practice online, marked as you type. And if you learn Spanish too, the Spanish verb conjugation quiz works the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Is this German conjugation quiz free?
Yes. There is no account, no email address and no limit on how long you practice. It works in the browser on a computer or a phone.
Which tenses can I practice?
Eleven. In the indicative: present (Präsens), simple past (Präteritum) and future (Futur I). The perfect tenses: present perfect (Perfekt), past perfect (Plusquamperfekt) and future perfect (Futur II). In the subjunctive: Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II, Konjunktiv II with würde and the past Konjunktiv II. In the imperative: the du, ihr and Sie forms.
Which verbs are in the quiz?
All 600 verbs from the worksheets, unless you tick boxes to narrow them: weak, strong, irregular and mixed or modal verbs, and separable verbs, verbs that form the perfect with sein, or verbs always used with sich. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other, so Strong and Separable together give the strong separable verbs.
Do umlauts and ß count?
Yes. "er fahrt" for "er fährt" is marked wrong. On-screen buttons type ä, ö, ü and ß, so you don't need a German keyboard. Capital letters don't count.
Do I have to type ich, du and the other pronouns?
No. Wir sind gegangen and sind gegangen are both marked right. Where a form has two correct versions, such as geh and gehe, either one counts.
How do I type a separable or reflexive verb?
In full, the way it's used in a sentence: ich rufe an, ich habe angerufen, ich habe mich gewaschen.
What if I don't know the names of the tenses?
You don't need them. Every tense and verb group on the setup screen has a plain-English example under it, such as "Simple past · ich ging · I went" or "Vowel change (strong) · gehen → ging, gegangen". So you can pick by what the forms look like and learn the names later.
Can I practice only the forms I got wrong?
Yes. Press Stop to see your score and a list of the forms you missed, then press "Practice my mistakes" to go through just those again.
Licenses and credits
Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb ranking comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).