Master German Articles, Genders and Prepositions with 195 Flashcards

German nouns come with three genders, four cases and a dozen ways to form a plural, and the article tells you all of it at once. Flip It deck KM1058 "German Articles, Genders & Prepositions" drills exactly that in 195 cards: the full der/die/das and ein/eine tables, about 90 everyday nouns with their articles and plurals, the gender-by-suffix rules, and every preposition sorted by case.

Sample cards

What you'll drill

der, die, das, den, dem, des, ein, eine, einen, einem, einer, eines, kein, keine; der Mann, die Frau, das Kind, das Mädchen, der Tisch, die Tür, das Fenster, der Apfel, die Kartoffel, das Ei, der Käse, das Herz, die Freiheit, die Schwierigkeit, die Übung, die Freundschaft, die Universität, das Häuschen, das Vöglein; plurals Männer, Bücher, Häuser, Bäume, Brüder, Mütter, Städte, Flüsse, Hände, Äpfel, Eier, Wörter, Freundinnen; dative prepositions mit, nach, von, aus, zu, bei, seit, gegenüber; accusative durch, für, gegen, ohne, um, bis, entlang; two-way in, an, auf, unter, über, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen; genitive während, wegen, statt, trotz, innerhalb, außerhalb, aufgrund.

Study plan

1. Cards 1-32 as a grid, not 32 facts. Write the 4×4 der-table once: only den (acc. masc. and dat. pl.), dem and des are new forms. Learn the endings (-r, -e, -s, -n, -m) and ein/kein follow the same pattern.
2. Nouns in their clusters. The deck runs article cards and then plurals for each theme (family, body, food, time). Review each pair together so der Vater → die Väter sticks as one unit.
3. Suffix rules before nouns. Cards 62-68 settle all the nouns at 69-75 in one go, so learn those rules first.
4. Prepositions last, pairing each two-way card at 156-164 with its twin at 180-188.

Fixes and gaps

• Card 160 is half wrong. Über meaning "about a topic" takes the accusative, not the dative: ein Buch über den Krieg. Only "above" with no movement is dative.
• kein stops at the nominative. Add keinen, keinem, keiner, keines. They follow the ein row, plus the plural keine/keinen/keiner.
• Hidden weak nouns. der Junge, der Buchstabe and der Student take -(e)n outside the nominative: mit dem Studenten, den Jungen. Add one card for that rule.
• No masculine suffix rules. Add -ling, -ismus and -or (masculine), -um and -ment (neuter), and -ion, -ei and -ik (feminine).
• Dative plural adds -n. Add a card for mit den Kindern.
• Dative-only außer and ab are missing.

The deck works as a fix for our German A1 Essentials guide, whose backs come without articles. Learn the gender here and carry it over.

Open deck KM1058 in the Flip It library at flip-it.app and start with the article grid.