Greetings in German
Use the greetings pack with German words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ German
Play your way into German vocabulary
Build useful German vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to German recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
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Meet
See a useful word with a picture, its German spelling, and audio.
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Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
- 03
Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
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Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for German
German is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what German has.
| Feature | German |
|---|---|
| Script | Latin (Deutsch) |
| Transliteration | Not needed: German is written in the Latin alphabet |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Noun cards carry their gender |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 14 |
| Alphabet Quest | No |
| On-screen keyboard | Not needed |
Real lesson content
14 German phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the German lessons as published.
| English | German |
|---|---|
| The mother gives tea to her child at home. | Zu Hause gibt die Mutter ihrem Kind Tee. |
| The student reads a new book at school. | Der Schüler liest ein neues Buch in der Schule. |
| The man drinks cold water today. | Der Mann trinkt heute kaltes Wasser. |
| The girl eats fresh bread in the room. | Das Mädchen isst frisches Brot im Zimmer. |
| My friend wants a sweet cake and milk at the cafe. | Mein Freund will einen süßen Kuchen und Milch im Café. |
| The old doctor knows the name of this person. | Der alte Arzt kennt den Namen dieser Person. |
| The family has a big house in the city. | Die Familie hat ein großes Haus in der Stadt. |
| The father sees a black car on the road. | Der Vater sieht ein schwarzes Auto auf der Straße. |
| The young girl goes to the small white house at night. | Das junge Mädchen geht in der Nacht zum kleinen weißen Haus. |
| A visitor arrives at the station with a ticket on the platform. | Ein Besucher kommt mit einem Ticket auf dem Bahnsteig am Bahnhof an. |
| My friend comes home today, and we drink good coffee at the table. | Mein Freund kommt heute nach Hause, und wir trinken guten Kaffee am Tisch. |
| For breakfast, the girl has an egg and cheese on the plate and a cup on the table. | Zum Frühstück hat das Mädchen ein Ei und Käse auf dem Teller und eine Tasse auf dem Tisch. |
| The cook makes dinner with fish and oil. | Der Koch macht das Abendessen mit Fisch und Öl. |
| The food smells bad after an hour in the oven. | Das Essen riecht nach einer Stunde im Ofen schlecht. |
Word by word
70 German words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | German, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| mother | Mutter |
| give | gibt |
| tea | Tee |
| child | Kind |
| home | Hause |
| student | Schüler |
| read | liest |
| new | neues |
| book | Buch |
| school | Schule |
| man | Mann |
| drink | trinkt |
| cold | kaltes |
| water | Wasser |
| today | heute |
| girl | Mädchen |
| eat | isst |
| fresh | frisches |
| bread | Brot |
| room | Zimmer |
| want | will |
| sweet | süßen |
| cake | Kuchen |
| milk | Milch |
| cafe | Café |
| old | alte |
| doctor | Arzt |
| know | kennt |
| name | Namen |
| person | Person |
| family | Familie |
| have | hat |
| big | großes |
| house | Haus |
| city | Stadt |
| father | Vater |
| see | sieht |
| black | schwarzes |
| car | Auto |
| road | Straße |
| young | junge |
| go | geht |
| small | kleinen |
| white | weißen |
| night | Nacht |
| visitor | Besucher |
| arrive | kommt |
| station | Bahnhof |
| ticket | Ticket |
| platform | Bahnsteig |
| friend | Freund |
| come | kommt |
| good | guten |
| coffee | Kaffee |
| table | Tisch |
| breakfast | Frühstück |
| egg | Ei |
| cheese | Käse |
| cup | Tasse |
| plate | Teller |
| cook | Koch |
| make | macht |
| dinner | Abendessen |
| fish | Fisch |
| oil | Öl |
| food | Essen |
| smell | riecht |
| bad | schlecht |
| hour | Stunde |
| oven | Ofen |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into German.
Travel vocabulary in German
Use the travel pack for German transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in German
Use the food pack for everyday German words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning German with MemDecks
Can I translate German back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–German learning pair in either direction while keeping German as the study language.
Are there German lessons, or only single words?
Both. Phrase Builder has 14 German lessons, each built around one phrase and the words in it, and every word you save becomes a card other games can use.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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