German for Turkish speakers

Turkish and German both care about endings, and that similarity is easy to over-trust. In Turkish the noun carries case and the verb usually finishes the sentence. In a German main clause the conjugated verb is in position 2, and the case of a singular noun is often on the article rather than on a stack of suffixes.

Ich kaufe den Tisch.

den is the accusative. The noun Tisch did not grow a long ending. If you wait to hear the case on the noun, you will miss it. Read cases and look nouns up in the dictionary with the article attached.

Vowel harmony does not operate in German. You cannot predict e or a in a verb ending from the vowel of the stem the way you can in Turkish. Learn the ending with the verb: ich komme, du kommst, er kommt.

Where Turkish and German do meet is the verb at the end of a subordinate clause. After weil and dass, German finally looks a little more like the order you already speak. Do not use that order in a main clause. Verb position shows both.

The Turkish homepage is a translation of the product, not a different syllabus. Placement picks a CEFR level.

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Author: Fahrplan Deutsch. Last reviewed 2026-10-27. reviewed: false. A native-speaker review is still open.