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In German, genders, cases, strong verbs and vocabulary are what you can memorise. Lumi asks them back, while speaking and writing are built by practising.

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Make one note per vocabulary list, strong verb, case and word-order rule. Always learn a noun with its article, because gender is almost impossible to guess. Lumi quizzes articles, endings and irregular forms, and makes you write the word. Retesting a word you already know has more effect than studying it again (Karpicke and Roediger, 2008). The typical trap is knowing the word without its article. Lumi fixes the basic material.

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In a German main clause the conjugated verb comes second. The three genders are der, die and das. The dative answers the question wem. Danke means thank you.

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In a German main clause the conjugated verb comes _____.

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