Free Letter Drop

German vocabulary: a free spelling game

Spelling a word out is harder than recognising it, and it is the direction you need when you actually want to say something. Home, family, food and time. The nouns you meet in the first weeks. Every prompt carries the article, so the gender goes in with the word.

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How to play

Catch the next correct letter to spell the German word for the English shown. A wrong letter costs a life, and you have 3. 91 nouns in this set.

Tap or click the lane with the correct letter

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What is in this game

The 91 terms you will drill

Everything the game tests, in plain text, so you can read it first or revise without playing.

Free German Vocabulary Game: Starter Nouns term list
English	German
man	der Mann
woman	die Frau
child	das Kind
boy	der Junge
girl	das Mädchen
mother	die Mutter
father	der Vater
brother	der Bruder
sister	die Schwester
family	die Familie
friend	der Freund
girlfriend	die Freundin
name	der Name
house	das Haus
flat	die Wohnung
room	das Zimmer
kitchen	die Küche
door	die Tür
window	das Fenster
table	der Tisch
chair	der Stuhl
bed	das Bett
lamp	die Lampe
cupboard	der Schrank
wall	die Wand
garden	der Garten
key	der Schlüssel
clock	die Uhr
bread	das Brot
butter	die Butter
cheese	der Käse
milk	die Milch
water	das Wasser
coffee	der Kaffee
tea	der Tee
beer	das Bier
wine	der Wein
juice	der Saft
sugar	der Zucker
salt	das Salz
egg	das Ei
meat	das Fleisch
fish	der Fisch
apple	der Apfel
potato	die Kartoffel
tomato	die Tomate
soup	die Suppe
cake	der Kuchen
plate	der Teller
glass	das Glas
cup	die Tasse
knife	das Messer
fork	die Gabel
spoon	der Löffel
bottle	die Flasche
day	der Tag
night	die Nacht
morning	der Morgen
evening	der Abend
week	die Woche
month	der Monat
year	das Jahr
hour	die Stunde
minute	die Minute
time	die Zeit
hand	die Hand
head	der Kopf
eye	das Auge
ear	das Ohr
nose	die Nase
mouth	der Mund
tooth	der Zahn
arm	der Arm
leg	das Bein
hair	das Haar
heart	das Herz
dog	der Hund
cat	die Katze
bird	der Vogel
horse	das Pferd
book	das Buch
paper	das Papier
bag	die Tasche
car	das Auto
street	die Straße
city	die Stadt
school	die Schule
pen	der Stift
ball	der Ball
picture	das Bild
card	die Karte

How to spell 91 everyday German nouns from the English
Production rather than recognition, which is the harder and more useful direction
The article alongside the word, so gender is learned with the noun instead of after it

Noun genders and plurals from German Wiktionary via the german-nouns dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0). These sets are hand-picked everyday nouns, not official CEFR word lists: the Goethe-Institut lists are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is this German game free?

Yes. It runs in your browser with no sign-up, no download, and no account.

How many nouns does it cover?

91 in this set, and there is a second set at a different level. Every noun is listed on this page as well as in the game.

Are these A1 or A2 nouns?

Neither, and any site telling you otherwise is guessing. The Goethe-Institut CEFR word lists are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced, so these are hand-picked everyday nouns grouped by how early you are likely to meet them.

Why is the article shown with every noun?

Because a German noun without its gender is only half learned. Meeting Tisch as der Tisch every time is far more effective than learning the word now and the gender later.

Can I make a game from my own German word list?

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