Master German A2 Everyday Vocabulary: A Study Guide to the 300-Card Deck

The German Vocabulary A2 — Everyday deck (code KG1170, 300 cards) on Flip It is a frequency list harvested from spoken German, not a themed everyday course. There is no card for a train ticket, a restaurant order or a day of the week. What you get instead are the words that genuinely fill German dialogue — and once you know that, the deck becomes far more useful than its title suggests.

What the cards actually hold

Every card is English → German, one word, no sentences, no hints.

• Particles and connectors that make German sound German — doch, noch, also, gar, sonst, egal, eigentlich, genau, vielleicht, einfach, damit, dabei, darum, darauf, davon, dazu, daran, drin, dran, draußen, runter, seit, wegen, gegen, hinter, sofort, bald, erst, fast, spät, später, einmal, genug, zusammen, allein, lieber, gern.
• Conjugated verb forms as you hear them — wirst, sei, seid, warst, hatten, hätten, würden, könnten, kam, gab, ging, sah, wusste, gefunden, gemacht, getan, wurden, and the imperatives geh, gib, sieh, hör, warte.
• About fifty everyday nouns — mädchen, haus, abend, ordnung, freund, angst, welt, kind, junge, musik, arbeit, herr, familie, sohn, tochter, bruder, schwester, frau, sache, hilfe, frage, idee, ahnung, uhr, stadt, tür, auto, kopf, augen, polizei, glück, ende, minuten, dinge, männer, menschen.
• A distinctly dramatic register — scheiße, verdammt, töten, sterben, tot, verrückt, niemand, polizei. The source corpus was clearly television, and it shows.

A representative sample:

300 cards, 240 words

Count the distinct German words and you get 240, not 300. Every card from position 240 to the end repeats an earlier one with the English side reworded: natürlich is "of course" at card 3 and "naturally" at 240, gar is "at all/even" then "at all", and the same goes for ins, sei, weiter, gleich, hören, davon, nehmen, bringen, sprechen and fifty more. Exactly one card in that tail is new — echt ("real").

So: work the deck front to back, then suspend the last sixty-odd cards. Otherwise a fifth of your reviews teach you nothing.

Two repairs worth doing first

Capitalize the nouns and add the article. Not one of the 300 backs is capitalized, yet German capitalizes every noun without exception. Say the full form aloud each time you flip: das Mädchen, das Haus, der Abend, die Ordnung, die Angst, die Welt, das Kind, die Tür, das Auto, der Kopf, die Polizei, die Stadt, die Uhr, das Glück. Note too that hause is not a standalone word — it only lives inside nach Hause and zu Hause.

Collapse the verb forms. Fifty-five cards are scattered forms of just twenty-three verbs; sehen alone occupies six (sehen, sieht, siehst, sehe, sieh, sah). Write one card per verb carrying present tense, Perfekt and imperative together, then suspend the strays. You lose thirty reviews a day and gain an actual conjugation system.

While you are in there, delete the corpus debris: mom and dad are listed as German when the words are Mama and Papa, and the cards n, s, dr. and hi are artefacts of the subtitle scrape.

Sign in to Flip It and search the library for German Vocabulary A2 — Everyday (KG1170). When these 240 words feel automatic, the next tier is the 358 high-frequency words of the B1 Expanding deck, or jump straight to German business, technology and automotive vocabulary.