Konjugieren1.4 - App Store

Master German verb conjugations with 3,572 verbs across all conjugationgroups: the definitive reference and quiz app for German learners.

FEATURES

Complete Conjugation Reference

Browse and search 3,572 German verbs with full conjugations across fourteen conjugationgroups:
. Simple: Präsens Indikativ, Präteritum Indikativ, Imperativ
. Konjunktiv: Präsens Konjunktiv I, Präteritum Konjunktiv II
. Compound: Perfekt, Plusquamperfekt, Futur (Indikativ, Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II)
. Participles: Perfektpartizip, Präsenspartizip

Three standard varieties: North Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with Swiss ß-free spelling.

Interactive Quiz

Test your knowledge with timed 30-question quizzes:
. Regular difficulty: Focus on everyday conjugationgroups
. Ridiculous difficulty: Master the full range, with a 2x score multiplier
. Audio feedback for correct and incorrect answers

Conjugation Tutor (Apple Intelligence)

Get one-on-one help from an Apple Intelligence-powered tutor, right on your device:
. Ask conjugation questions in plain English: "How do you say 'I would have sung' in German?"
. Receive clear explanations of conjugation rules and patterns
. Requires Apple Intelligence; all processing stays on-device

Retro Arcade Game

Konjugieren also features a German-themed retro arcade shooter. Tilt your device to steer a pretzel and fire German-flag bullets at a 6x6 grid of top hats, beer steins, dachshunds, and cuckoo clocks. Collect power-ups, dodge dive-bombers, and survive rotating mechanics. How long can you hold the line?

Game Center Leaderboards

Compete globally on the way to conjugation mastery.

Widgets, Shortcuts, and More

. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: Verb of the Day and interactive Conjugation Quiz
. Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight integration for quick access to any verb
. Control Center controls for launching quizzes and random verbs
. Live Activities for quiz and game sessions on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island

Ablaut Highlighting

Watch vowel changes come alive. Strong verbs display their ablaut patterns visually:
. singen → sang → gesungen
. sehen → sah → gesehen

Accessibility and Localization

Fully accessible to VoiceOver users, with ablaut changes announced clearly and semantic headings throughout. Toggle conjugationgroup names between German and English.

Designed for iPad

Every view adapts to iPad's generous screen: multi-column grids, side-by-side conjugation tables, and family showcase panels.

EDUCATIONAL DEPTH

Konjugieren goes beyond simple conjugation tables. Each conjugationgroup includes detailed articles explaining formation, usage, and historical context, with literary examples from Goethe, Kafka, Mann, the Grundgesetz, and the Luther Bible. Every verb ships an example sentence, most of them drawn from published German writing.

Deep Etymologies

Trace each verb to its roots, nearly all the way to Proto-Indo-European, with cognates from English, Latin, Greek, Gothic, and Old Norse. Browse seven ways: strong, weak, mixed, -ieren, separable, inseparable, and by ablaut group.

Conjugate with confidence. Learn German verbs the right way.

A PERSONAL TRIBUTE

Konjugieren was created by Josh Adams as a tribute to his grandfather, Clifford August Schmiesing (1904-1944).

Cliff was born in Minster, Ohio, a town where German was the language of daily life. All four of his grandparents had immigrated from Germany, and he grew up steeped in that heritage, attending public schools taught by German-speaking nuns. He became a doctor, specializing in obstetrics.

When America entered World War II, Cliff served as an Army doctor, treating soldiers wounded in North Africa, Sicily, and Southern Italy. He died in Oran, Algeria, on January 21, 1944. Josh's mother, Ryan, was just fourteen months old.

Though Ryan never truly knew her father, Cliff's love for his family has echoed through the generations. Konjugieren honors Cliff and the language he and his ancestors spoke: German.

Version History Every verb in Konjugieren carries a frequency rank, shown on its screen and used as the default order of the verb list, so that a beginner meets sein and haben long before verdrießen. When version 1.3 tripled the corpus, the 2,582 new verbs took estimated ranks, because measuring them required permission from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, publisher of the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, the standard scholarly dictionary of German. The Akademie has granted it. The whole corpus was queried against DWDS in a single pass, and 3,489 of the 3,572 verbs now carry a measured rank. The estimates were wrong in ways only measurement could reveal: half the corpus moved at least 466 places. Verzeihen climbs from #3535 to #1347, behindern from #2979 to #697, and bescheren from #3450 to #790, while heraufgeben falls from #919 to #3570. The 63 most common verbs did not move at all. The remaining 83 verbs are compounds for which DWDS has no entry, so they keep their estimates.

The Credits article gains a Verb Frequency section in the wording the Akademie supplied, with a link to DWDS's own account of how it counts words. Konjugieren never queries DWDS itself: every rank was computed once, during development, and compiled into the app.

The Terminology article's Conjugationgroup section, which explains the word Konjugieren coined for a family of conjugations sharing a tense, a mood, and a voice, now reports the answer the DWDS lexicographers gave when asked whether an established term existed. One does: Flexionsparadigma. The lexicographers themselves call it deep specialist jargon, so Konjugieren keeps its coinage. The two terms are also not the same size: a Flexionsparadigma is every conjugation a verb has, so a conjugationgroup is arguably a subset of one. The section then traces both halves of the word. Flexion, from Latin flectere, "to bend", has a native twin in Beugung, built on biegen, so German draws the bending metaphor twice. Paradigma is Greek for a showing side by side, which is what the verb screen does with six conjugations at once, and its root also gave dictionary, verdict, index, judge, zeigen, token, and teach. 1.4 Aug 27 Konjugieren's corpus grows from 990 verbs to 3,572. The expansion adds the strong verbs the first corpus was missing and 2,303 prefixed derivatives, so the verbs you actually meet in German are now the ones the app conjugates: not just kommen but ankommen, entkommen, unterkommen, and zuvorkommen.

Every one of those 3,572 verbs now ships an etymology and an example sentence, where before only 990 did. Most sentences come from real German: Luther's Bible, the Brothers Grimm, Goethe, Kafka, Mann, Nietzsche, the Grundgesetz, and Bundestag proceedings. The etymologies trace nearly every verb back to Proto-Indo-European, with cognates in English, Latin, Greek, Gothic, and Old Norse.

German is pluricentric, and Konjugieren now says so. A new Regional Variety setting offers the northern German, Austrian, and Swiss standards, seeded from your device's region on first launch. In Swiss German, ss appears in place of ß. Stehen, sitzen, and liegen feature sein as their auxiliary for the southern varieties, contrasting with northern German. The quiz accepts a correct answer in any variety. A new Duden article introduces the dictionary that supplies those labels.

Forty-four verbs have two distinct meanings, with different conjugations for each. Hängen is strong when a picture hangs on the wall and weak when you hang it there. Abbrechen takes haben when you cancel something and sein when something snaps off. These verbs now let you switch between readings, and each reading gets its own conjugation table.

Corrections and fixes: a full review of the corpus revised 220 English translations and 121 example sentences. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets now advance at midnight without launching the app, and their text is localized into German. The game no longer damages the player every frame during contact, fires at the same rate on ProMotion displays as on any other, and reflows when you rotate the device instead of guessing at orientation. Deeplinks to an article or a verb family switch to the right tab. VoiceOver announces quiz results in German. Settings gains a version footer. 1.3 Aug 18 Following 1.1's redesign, version 1.2 brings a second polish pass across the app. Typography is tighter, micro-interactions for correct and incorrect quiz answers are refined, and iPad layouts now fill the screen instead of crowding the center.

The on-device Apple Intelligence Conjugation Tutor is retuned for users running the app in German. Grammar terminology aligns with the app's German conventions throughout, refusal copy is localized for off-topic questions, and a new explanatory row appears when Apple Intelligence isn't available on your device.

Version 1.2 also adds the Rückumlaut weak verbs: bringen / brachte, denken / dachte, kennen / kannte, brennen / brannte, senden / sandte, which have historically anomalous past-tense conjugations that trip up native and non-native speakers alike.

Bug fixes: the German flag emoji now renders correctly on iOS 26, a rare quiz crash on the dot-row indicator is resolved, an iPad navigation race condition no longer interrupts info browsing, and the bratwurst alternate icon's Settings thumbnail is sharper. 1.2 Jun 18 The Quiz, Settings, Verb Detail, Verb List, Family Detail, Info, Tutor, Results, and Onboarding screens have been redesigned with card framing, improved typography, better spatial composition, and micro-interactions for correct and incorrect answers.

A new alternate app icon featuring a bratwurst is available in Settings alongside the existing hat, pretzel, and Bundestag options.

Two new verbs bring the total to 990: besingen (celebrate in song) and konjugieren (conjugate). 1.1 Apr 2 1.0 Mar 13