Words
der Umlaut
In English: umlaut (ä, ö, ü)
The two dots on ä, ö, ü, which change the sound of the vowel. An umlaut often appears when a word changes form: in many plurals, in the comparative and in some verb forms.
Example: der Apfel, die Äpfel; alt, älter; ich fahre, du fährst
Related lessons
- The plural of nouns (A1)
- The present tense of stem-changing verbs: fahren, sehen, nehmen (A1)
- The comparative and the superlative (A2)