 | WyvernSabres: | May 4th, 2011 at 11:14 GMT | | 2 points    |
| Good quiz! I'm not unhappy with 13/25, as I haven't studied German since 1973. |
 | twix93: | Jun 10th, 2011 at 15:23 GMT | | 2 points |
| Great quiz. Out of the 4 I got wrong, I can't believe I forgot machen! |
Game published: Aug 5th, 2011 at 19:03 GMT
Comment below threshold: show it | JLKeip: | Aug 5th, 2011 at 21:11 GMT | | -9 points |
| mussen a verb? Isn't that an adverb? |
 | penguin0719: | Aug 5th, 2011 at 23:17 GMT | | -1 points |
| Typically, German adverbs have -lich appended. "Müssen" is a helping verb. |
 | steel03: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 00:42 GMT | | 7 points |
| Muessen is a modal verb. |
| aznemesis: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 00:51 GMT | | 3 points |
| A few of these are modals. Sollen and wollen are also modals. They are used in a manner similar to adverbs, but they also require conjugation the way most other verbs do. |
 | ShortyNJ: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 00:52 GMT | | 1 point |
| Ein ... zwei ... that's it. I'm done. |
| hcone76: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 03:45 GMT | | 5 points |
| Five years of German classes and I remember 2 verbs. I guess those classes were time well spent! |
 | Lauro: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 06:36 GMT | | 1 point |
| @JLKeip: Here are the adverbs --> http://www.sporcle.com/games/Lauro/german_adverbs |
 | ArtRock: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 08:35 GMT | | 7 points |
| Surprised that essen, trinken and schlafen did not make the list. |
 | cysion: | Aug 6th, 2011 at 14:56 GMT | | 6 points |
| But liegen did, lol :p |
 | smartster: | Aug 7th, 2011 at 01:49 GMT | | -3 points |
| This quiz certainly had limited appeal. |
Comment below threshold: show it | creativespin: | Aug 8th, 2011 at 03:15 GMT | | -10 points |
| lol 'to lie' is one of the most common verbs in German? Not sure what that's supposed to insinuate. |
 | grover173: | Aug 8th, 2011 at 16:52 GMT | | 5 points |
| This quiz makes me sad for all the German I've forgotten. |
| steel03: | Aug 8th, 2011 at 17:04 GMT | | 2 points |
| @creativespin - "Es liegt" means "it is" in some situations. Like if you want to say that Frankfurt is on the Oder River, you would say "Frankfurt liegt an der Oder," literally: "Frankfurt lies on the Oder." |
| grover173: | Aug 23rd, 2011 at 14:02 GMT | | 1 point |
| @creativespin: not "to lie" as in "to tell a falsehood". That would be "lügen". "liegen" is "to lie [down]". |
 | rastafari_seth: | Jan 17th, 2012 at 15:32 GMT | | -4 points |
| yeah,'tun' is not really a word.you say it in just a few parts of germany,especially in the south and it's NOT in the dictionnary. |
| Lauro: | Jan 22nd, 2012 at 18:52 GMT | | 1 point |
| @rasta: lol? http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/tun |
 | madlion: | Jan 23rd, 2012 at 09:40 GMT | | 3 points |
| 17 out of 25 for a German native speaker... shame on me!
Ok, it's Swissgerman but still... that's definitely sporcelitis, took me quite a while to switch in to German mode.
So, I bow my head to all non-native speakers who scored 10 or more. |
 | TinaBean: | Jan 27th, 2012 at 02:29 GMT | | -1 points |
| Very disappointed to see modals included. I (at first) assumed that only "actual" verbs were included. Shame on me I guess :} |
| Mademoiselle: | Feb 5th, 2012 at 20:35 GMT | | 3 points |
| really surprised "fahren" didn't make it onto the list |
| Ronya: | May 6th, 2012 at 19:30 GMT | | -2 points |
| I'm not sure "werden" is a verb of itself. Isn't it just the future tense of "sein"? |
| Hamburger: | Sep 19th, 2012 at 23:13 GMT | | 2 points |
| I would suggest that it should be translated as "to lay" instead of "to lie". Lay the book on the table, would use liegen. It often serves as the English word "put", which we do not really have in German. |
 | maleachi: | Nov 30th, 2012 at 23:37 GMT | | 3 points |
| I only got 12 right answers. As a German. I think, I might have to give back that passport of mine :-/ |
| Jessy8D: | Apr 11th, 2013 at 19:30 GMT | | 1 point |
| I got 20/25. I'm a native speaker though :P And watching TV at the same time helped too ;) |
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