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Understandable, and still wrong.

eine Entscheidung machen eine Entscheidung treffen Both are understood. Only one is what a German speaker says.

Verbindung drills the pairings that separate correct German from natural German. Which verb actually belongs with which noun.

Most apps teach you the noun. The noun was never the hard part. You already know Entscheidung, Rücksicht, Frage. What you do not know is that decisions are met, consideration is taken, and things are placed in question.

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What it isNomen-Verb-Verbindungen

The pairings a dictionary will not teach you.

These are the Funktionsverbgefüge and Nomen-Verb-Verbindungen that carry a surprising amount of everyday German. Each card gives you a real example sentence, an English meaning and a Turkish meaning.

Everyday, academic and professional German, for A2 to C2. Useful if you are preparing Goethe, telc, TestDaF, DSH or the Einbürgerungstest, where these turn up constantly.

How you practiseThree modes

Fill in the blank

A German sentence with the noun removed, and four collocations built on the same verb. The answer turns on usage rather than on guessing which verb looks familiar.

Meaning to German

An English or Turkish gloss, four German collocations. This is the direction that matters when you are speaking and have to produce the phrase yourself.

Lichtspiel

A pyramid of eighteen floors. Score 80% to build a floor, 90% or 100% to light it brighter and for longer. The light fades over days, so a floor still alight is a collocation still known.

The pyramidWechselpräpositionen

Where the article is the whole lesson.

auf den Tisch stellen auf dem Tisch stehen Accusative for movement, dative for position. One letter, two different things happening.

The lower floors of Lichtspiel drill exactly this, where the case is visible in the article and you can reason your way to it. The upper floors move to haben and sein, where nothing is visible and only usage decides. Climbing the pyramid is climbing from rules you can derive to pairings you have to know.

The restDetails

Scheduling that schedules

SM-2 shows each collocation just before you would forget it. Cards you miss come back sooner, cards you know get out of the way.

Hear it

Built-in German text to speech reads every example sentence aloud. There is a mute switch for when you need silence.

English and Turkish

Full interface and glosses in both. Every one of the 2,490 entries has a Turkish meaning, not only an English one.

Offline, no account

Everything lives on the device. No sign-up, no sync, nothing to lose when you lose signal.

Stop being understood, and start sounding right.

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