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German word match: a free vocabulary game

Recognition comes before production: before you can spell a word you have to know it on sight. Home, family, food and time. The nouns you meet in the first weeks. Every bubble carries the article, so the gender is never separated from the noun.

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How to play

Pop the bubble carrying the German word for the English shown. 12 correct matches over 3 levels, and you have 5 lives. 91 nouns in this set.

Tap or click the matching bubble

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

91 German nouns paired with their English meaning
Recognition speed, the first thing that has to work before anything else does
The article shown with every noun, so the gender comes along for free

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.

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