Learn the word with the grammar that comes with it.

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Why a translation is not enough

Knowing that Stadt means city does not tell you it is die Stadt, or that two of them are die Städte. Knowing that tener means to have does not get you to tengo. Those are exactly the parts that go wrong when you speak, and they are the parts a plain word-and-translation card leaves out.

In repeat.cards the grammar is part of the card. You decide once, per deck, which parts your language needs; after that every card in the deck has room for them, and training checks them.

Three switches per deck

• Articles. The article becomes part of the word, so the gender is learned with it — der/die/das, le/la, o/a. When a deck uses articles, the AI word check adds one to a noun you typed without it.
• Plurals. A plural field on every card, for nouns whose plural you cannot work out from the singular.
• Conjugations. One field per verb form. Switching it on fills in the preset for the language you are learning; you can add, rename or remove fields.

When you create your first deck while setting up your account, these switches are set for you from the language you choose: a language without articles gets no article switch, one whose verbs do not conjugate gets no conjugation fields.

Two cards, fully filled in

A German noun in a deck with articles and plurals switched on, and a Spanish verb in a deck with conjugations. Everything on the right can be written by AI and corrected by you.

The presets, and everything else

The conjugation presets are the six persons for Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian and Russian, and for English the base form, the third person, the past tense, the past participle and the -ing form. They are a starting point, not a cage: if your course drills the preterite, add a field for it.

For anything the three switches do not cover there are custom fields. Give one a name, choose whether it belongs on the front, the back or both sides of the card, whether it is shown during training, and whether it takes one value or several. Russian verb aspect partners, Polish cases, Chinese measure words — the deck gets whatever shape your language needs.

The grammar is trained, not just stored

When a card shows you the translation, you type the answer: the word, and below it the plural and each verb form the card has. Every box is checked on its own, so getting the word right and the plural wrong tells you precisely what to review. Spaced repetition then schedules the card for the moment you are about to forget it.