German A2 learning path – Elementary
At A2 you handle simple, routine tasks such as shopping, travel and describing your surroundings. You can talk about past events in simple terms.
What you can do at A2
- Shop, eat out and travel in simple everyday situations
- Describe your past and make plans for the near future
- Write short messages, postcards and simple emails
The A2 path brings together 160 vocabulary words, 39 grammar topics, 25 phrases, 4 writing tasks and 20 test questions. Work through the grammar topics in order, and use the vocabulary sets for daily practice.
Grammar topics at A2
- Dative case
- Dative verbs
- Dative prepositions
- Accusative prepositions
- Two-way prepositions
- Perfect tense with haben
- Perfect tense with sein
- Past participles of irregular verbs
- Past participles with prefixes
- Simple past of sein and haben
- Simple past of modals
- Modal verbs in full
- Separable verbs in the perfect
- Reflexive verbs
- Reflexive with dative
- Subordinate clauses with weil
- Subordinate clauses with dass
- Subordinate clauses with wenn
- Subordinate clauses with ob
- Als vs. wenn
- Comparative
- Superlative
- Irregular comparisons
- Adjective endings after definite article
- Adjective endings after indefinite article
- Adjective endings without article
- Future with werden
- Imperative of irregular verbs
- Questions with wo-compounds
- Da-compounds
- Indefinite pronouns man, jemand, niemand
- Position of nicht
- Dative and accusative object order
- Personal pronouns in accusative
- Personal pronouns in dative
- Nouns with n-declension
- Zu + infinitive
- Um … zu
- Temporal prepositions