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German first words and phrases for toddlers

1,000+ illustrated words and 500+ everyday phrases in German, each one spoken by a woman and a man, both native German voices — so you can hear it before you say it. Ages 0–5. Free to start.

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$9.99 once unlocks it all — no subscription.

PhraseFree card

Ich hab dich lieb.

“I love you.” · Me & My People

Hear it in German

Both clips are the app’s own audio, copied straight from the bundle. Tap one, then say it yourself — that second part is the one that counts.

1,000+illustrated words

500+everyday phrases

3,094German clips, bundled

2native voices per card

The phrases library

Say these today.

Eight real cards from the free set, grouped by the moment they belong to. The German is exactly what the app shows; the English underneath is for you. Tap a voice, then say it out loud to your child — that is the whole method.

Mealtime

Noch mehr, bitte.

“More, please.”

I Want & I Need
Ich bin fertig.

“All done.”

No, Stop & All Done

Bedtime

Gute Nacht, schlaf schön.

“Good night, sleep tight.”

Talk With Me
Ich hab Angst im Dunkeln.

“I'm afraid of the dark.”

How I Feel

Playtime

Wo ist es hin?

“Where did it go?”

Where Things Go
Da bist du ja!

“There you are!”

Where Things Go

Big Feelings

Ich bin traurig.

“I'm sad.”

How I Feel
Ich bin wütend!

“I'm mad!”

How I Feel

The words library

First words, in three stages.

The word library is 1,000+ illustrated cards across three stages you pick for your child. Here are twenty-four of them in German — the twelve with pictures are free; press a voice.

First Words 0–24 months

Free — picture, German word, both voices.

Milch
milk
Food & Drink
Hund
dog
Animals
Mama
mama
People
Ball
ball
Toys

Also in this stage, in the full library

Wasser
water
Food & Drink
Apfel
apple
Food & Drink
Mond
moon
Nature & Weather
Vogel
bird
Animals

Growing Words 2–3 years

Free — picture, German word, both voices.

Regenbogen
rainbow
Nature & Weather
Pinguin
penguin
Animals
Burg
castle
Places
springen
jump
Actions

Also in this stage, in the full library

Schule
school
Places
teilen
share
Actions
Ärztin
doctor
People
Hände waschen
wash hands
Actions

Word Builder 3–5 years

Free — picture, German word, both voices.

Astronaut
astronaut
People
Vulkan
volcano
Nature & Weather
Taschenlampe
flashlight
Home
Pfau
peacock
Animals

Also in this stage, in the full library

Kolibri
hummingbird
Animals
Meerjungfrau
mermaid
People
mutig
brave
Feelings
feiern
celebrate
Actions

The whole library, not a smaller edition

What’s inside for German.

1,000+ words in 16 categories — Animals, Food & Drink, Body, Home, Clothes, Toys, Vehicles, Nature & Weather, Places, People, Actions, Colors, Numbers, Shapes, Feelings, and Everyday Words.
Three age stages — First Words (0–24 months), Growing Words (2–3 years), Word Builder (3–5 years). You choose; the app never quietly moves your child on.
500+ phrases in 9 themes — I Want & I Need, No, Stop & All Done, Look at This!, What’s Happening, Where Things Go, Me & My People, Let’s Play Together, How I Feel, and Talk With Me.
3,094 German clips — a woman’s and a man’s native voice on every word and every phrase, all bundled in the app so nothing needs a signal.
German comes with the other seven — English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Korean and Russian are in the same app, at the same one price. Switch language on the card itself, without losing your place.
75 words and 35 phrases free, forever — 25 words for each stage, all in German, with both voices and their pictures.

Straight from the catalog

How the German is written.

Two German voices, on every card. Every word and every phrase is spoken twice — in a woman’s native German voice and in a man’s — and both live in the app at no extra cost. Whichever parent is doing bedtime, there is a voice on the card that sounds a little like them.
A capital letter, and no article on the card. The card says Hund, Milch, Regenbogen — 780 of the 1,021 cards begin with a capital, as German nouns do, and not one begins with der, die or das. The article changes with the sentence you put the word into, so it lives in the phrases library, where the sentence is.
The German a parent actually says. 31 phrases use hab and none use habe: Ich hab dich lieb, Ich hab Angst im Dunkeln. A child’s request is Ich will 29 times and Ich möchte once, because that is what a two-year-old says. 69 phrases say du; one says Sie.
ß stays where German writes it. Fuß, Straße, groß, heiß, weiß, Fußball — sixteen cards carry ß, and the voices say them the way they are written.
Long words stay whole. Feuerwehrauto, Taschenlampe, Sonnenbrille, Regenbogen. A thirteen-letter compound next to a two-year-old is exactly where the picture earns its place: the child reads the picture, and the word arrives as a sound.
The word follows the picture. The doctor on the card is a woman, so the card says Ärztin; the scientist is Wissenschaftlerin, the artist Künstlerin. The grammar agrees with what your child is looking at, not with a dictionary headword.

Why most families open these cards

For Oma und Opa.

For a lot of families the German cards are about two people who live somewhere else. The Sunday video call comes, and the child has a wave and nothing to say into it. Over time the calls get shorter.

Three or four things a child can produce on cue change that call: Hallo, Oma!, Ich hab dich lieb, the name of the dog. Nobody on that call is counting vocabulary. They are noticing that the child answered in their language.

It works in the other direction too. Show the grandparent the card, let them say Regenbogen into the phone in their own German, and let your child hear a voice they love saying it. The app is the prompt; the family is the point. With up to four child profiles, an older sibling and a baby keep their own lists.

Questions parents ask

German questions.

Why is there no der, die or das on the word cards?

A word card holds one word, because the picture already says which thing it is. A German article is not a fixed part of the word — it changes with case and sentence — so the words library teaches Hund, and the phrases library shows the word living inside a sentence, exactly as a parent would say it. If you want the article said aloud, say it yourself after the clip: that is the part your child learns from anyway.

Is German included in the free version?

Yes. The free set is 75 words and 35 phrases, and it is the same in every one of the eight languages, with both voices. No account, no trial clock, no ads. German is never the paid add-on; the one $9.99 purchase opens the rest of both libraries in all eight languages at once.

We speak German and English at home. Can the app do both?

Yes. Language is set per child profile, and you can switch it from the language pill without leaving the card, so the same picture can be Milch and then milk. You can keep up to four child profiles, each with its own language and its own progress.

Everything else — teaching a language you don’t speak, screen time for a baby, what the $9.99 unlocks — is answered on the FAQ.

Simple Words, Special Moments

Start with one word.

75 words and 35 phrases are free, forever — in German, with both voices. One $9.99 purchase opens the rest of the 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases, in all eight languages at once. No subscription, nothing renews.

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No ads, ever Private by design Works offline No account needed Up to 4 children iPhone, iPad, and Android

On Apple, the purchase is set up for Family Sharing. Google Play has no in‑app‑purchase family sharing, so on Android it stays with the account that bought it.

Same app, same card

More languages.

German sits alongside seven others in the same app, on the same card. If your family runs on two of them, both are already here.