Compound nouns
Families of words around one root or one prefix: Tuch, Hof, Haupt, Stand, Platz, Zeit, Mittel, Zeug and Ge-
- TuchA211 wordsaudiostoryOne stem -tuch, many things made of cloth: towels for the bathroom and kitchen, a handkerchief, a tablecloth, cleaning rags.
- HauptA27 wordsaudiostoryEverything main with Haupt-: the capital, the main street, square and station in a town, and in matters — the gist, the main part and the lead role.
- HofA27 wordsaudiostoryA fenced space under the open sky and everything around it: a courtyard, a station, a cemetery, a farm and an estate, a school playground.
- PlatzA211 wordsaudiostoryA place for anything: squares in the town centre and by the town hall, a playground and a sports ground, a fair, a car park.
- ZeitA28 wordsaudiostoryWords ending in -zeit: times of day and opening hours, free time and school years, mealtimes, seasons and even a wedding.
- MittelA2–B118 wordsaudiostoryWords ending in -mittel, a means for something: food, cleaning and laundry, medicines, transport and payment; and Mittel- at the start of a word means "middle".
- ZeugA2–B112 wordsaudiostoryWords ending in -zeug, everything you use for one job: things and kits for travel and sport, tools and toys, cars and planes.
- Ge-A2–B146 wordsaudiostorysongWords with the prefix Ge-, nearly all of them neuter: food, feelings, the person, geography, buildings, speech and sounds, abstractions, things, work. The masculine and feminine ones apart.
- StandB133 wordsaudiostoryHow things stand: state and position, level and figures, reason and point of view, resistance and support, stalls and stands.