\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Ouday99 (BaibenOuday)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (german-101.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Ouday99 (BaibenOuday)) /Subject (German 101 Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{A34F0F} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F9F4F0} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{German 101 Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Ouday99 (BaibenOuday)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/216685/cs/47410/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Ouday99 (BaibenOuday) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/baibenouday} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 29th November, 2025.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. 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\SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{Dative Prepositions}}}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Preposition}} & {\bf{English}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} aus & from / out of \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} bei & at / near / with \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} mit & with \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} nach & after / to \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} seit & since / for (time) \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} von & from / of \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} zu & to \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} au{\ss}er & except \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} gegenüber & opposite \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} entsprechend & according to \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) 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% Row Count 21 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.05965 cm} x{1.19002 cm} x{1.32733 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{Sein}} + {\bf{Haben}} (Present)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{P.pronouns}} & {\bf{Sein}} & {\bf{Haben}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ich}} & bin & habe \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{du}} & bist & hast \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{er/sie/es}} & ist & hat \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{wir}} & sind & haben \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ihr}} & seid & habt \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{sie/Sie}} & sind & haben \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.51041 cm} x{1.32733 cm} x{1.73926 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{Gender of nouns}}}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Masc}} & {\bf{Femin}} & {\bf{Neut}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} -er & -e & -chen \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} -en & -heit & -lein \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} -el & -keit & -ment \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} -ig & -ung & -um \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} -ling & -schaft & -tum \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} -ismus & -ion & -ma \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} -ist & -t{\"a}t & -ium \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} -or & -ik & -o \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} -ant & -ur & -sel \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} -us & -ie & -tel \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} -eur & -enz & Young Humans \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Days & -anz & Young Animals \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} Months & -ei & Metals \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Seasons & Flowers & Hotels, Cafés \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} Compass Points & Trees & Restaurants \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Cars,Trains & \seqsplit{Motorcycles} & Countries \& Cities \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} Celestial Bodies & Alphab Letters & Scientifict Terms \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{$\filledsquare{}$ Exceptions exist for many words; memorization and context are necessary. \newline $\filledsquare{}$ Rivers → masculine in Germany; 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It is the comparative form of gern = {\bf{rather}}, {\bf{prefer to}}.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}----} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.15119 cm} x{0.82386 cm} x{1.60195 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{Indefinite words and their negations}}}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & {\bf{Words}} & {\bf{English}} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ {\emph{People:}} }} & {\bf{ }} & \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Jemand & someone \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & \seqsplit{niemand} & no one \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & keiner & nobody \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ {\emph{Things:}} }} & {\bf{ }} & \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & etwas & something \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & nichts & nothing \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & gar nichts & abosolutely nothing \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} & alles & everything \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ {\emph{Places:}} }} & {\bf{ }} & \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} & \seqsplit{irgendwo} & somewhere \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & \seqsplit{nirgends} & nowhere \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} & \seqsplit{nirgendwo} & nowhere \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ {\emph{Time:}} }} & {\bf{ }} & \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 1) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} & immer & always \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 1) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & nie & never \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} & \seqsplit{niemals} & never ever \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 1) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ {\emph{Negative expression:}} }} & 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Where from \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Wohin & Where to \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Wieviel & How much/How many \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.78712 cm} x{2.18988 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{Two-Way Prepositions}} (acc+dat)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Preposition}} & {\bf{English}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} an & on / at \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} auf & on / onto \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} hinter & behind \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} in & into \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} neben & next to \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} über & over / above \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} unter & under \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} vor & in front of \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} zwischen & between \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.9908 cm} x{2.9862 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{"nicht" Usage}}}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Condition}} & {\bf{Placement}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ {\emph{Negating a:}} }} & {\bf{ }} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Verb & End of sentence \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Entire sentence & End of sentence \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Adjectives & Before the adjective \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Adverbs & Before the adverbs \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Definite nouns & Before the article \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Indefinite nouns & Use {\bf{kein}} instead \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Prepositional phrases & Before the prepositional phrase \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Modal verbs & Before the infinitive verb \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Modal verb alone & After the modal verb \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} Comparisons & before the adjective/adverb \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Separable verbs & Before the separable prefix. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} Perfekt tense & Before the past participle. \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{$\filledsquare{}$ Negative a modal verb alone (no infinitive) : After the modal verb \newline {\bf{Example:}} Ich darf {\bf{nicht}}. \newline $\filledsquare{}$ "Doch" is used to contradict a negative statement or question. \newline {\bf{Example:}} Du kommst nicht? → „{\bf{Doch!}} ich komme. \newline $\filledsquare{}$ "Sondern" is used to contradict the first part of a negative sentence and introduce the correct alternative. Must follow a negation (nicht/kein) in the first clause. \newline {\bf{Example:}} Ich trinke {\bf{nicht}} Kaffee, {\bf{sondern}} Tee.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}