What is it?
The Forms Trainer teaches you morphology — declensions and conjugations — but not through rote memorising of tables. Instead you actively identify and build the forms, always embedded in a real sentence.
What do you practise here?
Every part of speech, each in its own trainer:
- Nouns — all 5 declensions.
- Adjectives — a-/o- and 3rd declension, comparison.
- Verbs — all 4 conjugations, 6 tenses, active + passive, indicative + subjunctive.
- Participles — PPA, PPP, PFA.
- Pronouns and demonstratives.
A special feature with the verbs: As you grow more confident, the irregular copula and motion verbs and their compounds are mixed in actively — esse and its compounds (adsum, absum …), ire and its relatives. So you practise not just the model verbs but exactly the forms that trip you up in a real text.
How do you practise here?
In four query modes that step up with your box level: Classic (case buttons), Multiple Choice, Chunks (assembling syllables) and free entry. Young cards start easy, mature ones demand the full entry. At the end of each card you see the form broken down in colour — stem, tense marker, ending — along with the paradigm table and a fitting example sentence.
Features
- 4 query modes, box-dependent (from multiple choice to free entry).
- Its own 5-box system (separate from the Sentence Quiz).
- Colour-coded word breakdown on the results screen: stem · tense marker · ending.
- A fitting example sentence and paradigm table for every form.
What does the support look like?
You correct your own mistakes — you only move on with the right form. And a slip doesn’t cost you the box straight away: on the first mistake only your streak resets, only the second genuine error demotes the card (soft reset). The word breakdown and the example sentence show you directly what went wrong.
How does the dyslexia support work here?
Each part of speech has its fixed colour and its label, and the colour-coded breakdown of the form makes visible where an ending starts and stops — instead of explaining it in the abstract. On top of that: the OpenDyslexic font, wider letter spacing, dark mode and audio if you like. Individual modes can be switched off in the Settings.
How do you learn here? And how does it all connect?
The example sentences aren’t random: the same sentence returns across the trainers (🧠). A form you identified here, you meet again in the Sentence Quiz, in Sensus or in the Reading section — that’s how connections build up, and a sentence you parsed in parts, you can later handle whole. Scientifically: active recall within a real sentence anchors more strongly than tables (testing effect, Roediger & Karpicke 2006; context eases working memory, Sweller 1988). More in the learning method.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to know the tables by heart?
No — that’s exactly what the Forms Trainer turns around. You build the forms actively in the sentence; the paradigm table is there for looking up, not for cramming.
Why do esse and ire forms suddenly turn up?
Because they appear everywhere in real texts. As soon as you have the model verbs secure, the trainer mixes in the irregular verbs and their compounds — so nothing surprises you in a sentence any more.
Try it now
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