The adjective shows us, how something or someone is.
E.g.: „Wie ist das Eis?“ „Es ist kalt.“ (= "How is the ice-cream?" "It's cold.")
The word „kalt“ (= cold) is an adjective.
Adjectives are used in sentences with „sein“ (= to be) or other verbs.
E.g.: „Wie schmeckt das Eis?“ „Es schmeckt süß.“ ("How does the ice-cream taste?" "It tastes sweet.")
You'll find further explanations as well as many examples in the following video:
Exercises
We offer three kinds of exercises about adjectives for level-A1-learners:
- Find the Opposite - Explanation ↓ || Exercises ↓
- Which adjective fits - Explanation ↓ || Exercises ↓
- Searching words - Adjectives - Explanaton & PDF-Download ↓
The online exercises come in two variants:
a) Typing the solution down (by keyboard). ![]()
b) Shifting words to the place they fit (by computer mouse) ![]()
The variant a) works with all devices, whereas variant b) doesn't work with smartphones.
» Find the Opposite
The two variants:
» Find the Opposite: Food/Beverage/Restaurant
a) type
|| b) shift ![]()
» Find the Opposite: Housing/Furniture
a) type
|| b) shift ![]()
» Which adjectives fit?
There are several exercises with incomplete sentences. In every exercise you shall fill in two blanks inserting each time one adjective - the two required adjectives are always opposites of each other.
There will be a list of adjectives out of which you shall choose the fitting ones.
Exercises:
» Which adjekcives fit: Food/Beverage/Restaurant
a) type
|| b) shift ![]()
» Which adjectives fit: Housing/Furniture
a) type
|| b) shift ![]()
» Wörter suchen - Adjektive
Here you have two letter grids. In the first grid seven adjectives are hidden - in the second grid there are hiden the opposites of the adjectives of the first grid.
You can downloead this exercise as a pdf document..
Here is the
exercise and here's the
solution.

