Flapjugation
Flap your bird to the right verb form.
You steer a bird through a gap by choosing the correct present-tense form of a German verb, covering all six persons. The game uses high-frequency verbs that appear often in everyday German.
A German verb changes with the person: ich mache, du machst, wir machen. Common verbs also have forms worth learning as a pair, such as du bist and du liest. These combinations help you follow who is doing what and form a simple sentence yourself.
The more you play this game, the better you will be able to recognize familiar verb forms when people talk about their day, and choose useful forms for talking about yourself or another person. Say a few pronoun–verb pairs aloud after your flight.
Try a short flight while you wait for something, or make it your game after a daily habit. Come back on another day to revisit the forms.
Learn a pronoun and verb form together: ich bin, du bist, er ist. Then review the pairs in different orders. Flapjugation gives you a pronoun and asks you to steer toward the matching form. You can repeat a few pairs aloud after playing.
All six grammatical persons - ich, du, er/sie/es, wir, ihr, and the formal Sie - in the present tense (several of these pronouns share the same verb form). The pronoun changes after a streak of correct hits, so a single session will cycle you through all of them more than once.
Strong verbs are defined by their principal parts (gehen - ging - gegangen), and only some of them change their stem vowel in the du/er forms - gehen and kommen, for instance, are actually regular in the present tense. The verbs worth drilling until they're automatic include sein, haben, werden, wissen, gehen, kommen, sehen, lesen, essen, sprechen, fahren, geben, and nehmen - they show up in nearly every sentence, and they're all in the Flapjugation pool.
There is no fixed timetable. Try a short flight on different days, and notice which forms become easier to recognize. Use a few of the pairs in your own short sentences too.
Regular (weak) verbs follow a fixed pattern: stem + -e/-st/-t/-en/-t/-en (machen → ich mache, du machst…). Strong verbs are defined by their principal parts rather than a single rule, and a subset of them change their stem vowel in the du and er/sie/es forms (lesen → du liest, er liest) - though others, like gehen and kommen, stay regular in the present tense. This set covers many high-frequency verbs, which is why drilling them pays off.
Flapjugation is present-tense only - that's the foundation everything else sits on. Once present feels automatic, layer in Perfekt (ich habe gemacht / ich bin gegangen), the past tense Germans actually use in conversation. See the past-tense practice hub for dedicated reps on Perfekt and Präteritum.