Free German Verb Conjugation Worksheets

How the German conjugation worksheet generator works

Start with the verbs. The list holds 600 German verbs, ranked by how often they occur in film and TV subtitles, plus everyday verbs a beginner needs that subtitles underrate, such as einkaufen, duschen and regnen. Each verb has its English meaning, and you can search the list in German or English. Filters narrow it to regular (weak) verbs, strong verbs, irregular and mixed verbs, separable verbs such as anrufen and aufstehen, verbs that form the perfect with sein, verbs always used with sich, or the modal verbs on their own. A live count shows how many verbs match. A worksheet holds up to 30 verbs, in the order you click them. Then tick the tenses you want, and choose the kind of sheet on the preview.

Fill-in boxes, a quick quiz or a verb chart

The fill-in worksheet gives every verb one box for each tense, twelve boxes to a page in four rows of three. Make them smaller to fit fifteen on a page, or bigger for younger learners, with six or four to a page. Each box lists all six persons: ich, du, er/sie/es, wir, ihr and sie/Sie. The answer key prints on separate pages, so you can hand out the worksheet and keep the key. The quick quiz is a German verb conjugation quiz that gives you practice out of order: 10 to 50 shuffled lines, each asking for one form, such as “wir · gehen · present perfect”. If the verbs and tenses you picked cannot fill a count, that count is grayed out. The Shuffle button makes a new version for the next class, and the quiz has its own answer key too. The verb chart prints every form filled in, which gives you a printable German verb conjugation chart to keep in a binder.

Perfekt, Präteritum and the other tenses

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 (hätte gemacht, wäre gegangen). The imperative has the du, ihr and Sie forms: geh(e), geht and gehen Sie. Each tense has its German name printed next to the English one. In the perfect, every verb takes the auxiliary of standard German, so the sheet gives ich bin gegangen and ich habe gestanden. A few verbs take either one depending on meaning. Ziehen is hat gezogen when you pull something and ist gezogen when you move, and the answer key shows both. A Perfekt worksheet or a Präteritum worksheet for ten strong verbs takes a few clicks.

Separable verbs, modal verbs and sich

Separable verbs print the way they are used, with the particle where German puts it: ich rufe an, ich habe angerufen, ruf(e) an. Filter the list to separable verbs for a separable verbs worksheet, or to the modal verbs for a modal verbs worksheet. Any verb can also be made reflexive with the +sich button. Add it to waschen and the sheet works with sich waschen: ich wasche mich, du wäschst dich and on down the table. Verbs that take the dative get mir and dir instead (ich merke mir). The pronoun follows the verb and comes before a separable particle, so the sheet gives ich ziehe mich an, and in the perfect, ich habe mich angezogen. The answer key prints every one of those forms in full.

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 prints as schaffte, geschafft (to manage), the sense learners need, not schuf (to create). Spelling follows the current rules from the 1996 reform, so the sheets print 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 your students hear in conversation may not be on the sheet.

Free worksheets for teachers and classrooms

Every sheet has a name and date line, prints in black and white, and can be photocopied freely. All six persons appear in every box, so there is no setting to change for formal Sie or informal ihr. Build one worksheet per unit, or a freshly shuffled quiz per student for German conjugation practice before a test. For articles, prepositions and adjective endings, there are also German case worksheets. If you teach Spanish as well, the same generator makes Spanish verb conjugation worksheets.

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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).