A2–B1 Verbs Verb conjugation Modal verbs Requests & wishes Reading
Modal Combat
Choose the missing word and send the fireball back.
Modal verbs help you say what you can do, must do or are allowed to do: Ich kann kommen, Ich muss arbeiten, Du darfst hier parken. In a simple sentence, the modal verb changes with the person, and the other verb goes at the end in its infinitive form. You also meet Konjunktiv II forms such as könnte, wäre and hätte, which are useful for polite requests, wishes and imagined situations.
The more you play this game, the better you will be able to recognise familiar phrases for asking permission, making a polite request and explaining what you need or would like to do. Try saying one of the completed sentences aloud after your round.
Play a short fight during a break, or add one round to an everyday habit. Learning mode is a useful place to start, and you can return whenever you feel like another challenge.
You practise choosing a word that fits the grammar and meaning of a sentence. This gives you repeated encounters with useful modal verbs and Konjunktiv II forms. Reading a completed sentence aloud after a round adds a chance to use the phrase yourself.
wäre and hätte on their own, würde/könnte/müsste/sollte with an infinitive, Konjunktiv II in the past (beinahe wäre er gefallen), modal verbs in the present (du darfst hier nicht rauchen) and in the past (früher durfte man im Zug rauchen), polite requests and wishes (hätten Sie einen Moment Zeit?), and choosing the infinitive that actually makes sense after a modal.
Each question is designed around one intended answer. Check the person, the verb form and the meaning of the sentence. A word may be a real German form and still fail to fit this particular sentence.
The correct word lights up in the sentence and on its button for about a second. Sentences you missed return later in the fight. After the round, you see a short rule for each missed sentence, so you can review it at your own pace.
Yes. Switch on Learning mode from the title screen to see the correct answer highlighted when an attack starts. You can follow the sentence and practise the timing. These rounds are for practice and do not count towards the leaderboard.
The game is aimed at A2–B1 learners who have already met modal verbs and some Konjunktiv II forms. Some later sentences are more complex. A round takes about one to five minutes, so you can fit a fight into a work break, a journey or a warm-up before class.
It was built phone-first. Held upright you get an over-the-shoulder view with the answers in your thumb zone; turned sideways or on a laptop you get the classic side-on fighting view. You can also just press 1, 2 or 3 on a keyboard. Nothing to install and no account needed.
It does, without any menu to fiddle with. Every attack flies slightly faster than the last, and once you have beaten three senseis, sentences with two clauses join the deck (wenn du mich gefragt hättest, hätte ich dir geholfen), so what you read grows alongside how fast you have to read it.