This deck is derived from the work by H. J. Siliakus: “500 German Theological Terms,” 6th. ed., (Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 1988). Used with generous copyright permission from the University of Adelaide. There are several additional cards from a theological German class as well as our textbook: Helmut Ziefle’s “Modern Theological German,” 2007 (the publishers do not allow more than 250 words, including the term and each of its definitions, to be posted online).
Because this is designed for intermediate students of German, it assumes that the user has completed at least one semester of German and has mastered most of the chapter vocabulary terms from “Jannach’s German for Reading Knowledge” (6th ed.) by Korb (about 1,000 words). See “Jannachs 6th Ed All Basic Vocab Tagged” or “Jannachs German tagged by chapter” if you need that foundation. That is the main reason why the deck does not actually contain 500 terms. Some of Siliakus’ words have common English cognates, and so were omitted. Finally, I also omitted some because they were either similar enough to ones already in the deck or because they fell outside my interests. If you are studying systematic theology, you may want to add those terms (see listing below).
Each card in the deck is tagged by functional part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, or adverb are the most helpful, although there are other categories), by the letter that starts the nouns (e.g., ‘G-initial-letter’ will give you all nouns beginning with ‘G’ such as ‘Gebot’), and by the textbook it comes from (with the chapter numbers from Ziefle as well). I have even tagged abbreviations and some idioms. Select "Tools > Cram" on the main Anki interface and then start typing any of these tags listed above to study just nouns beginning with certain letters (A-F, for example) or just certain parts of speech (nouns, for example), or just idioms (this is a small collection, at present).
The gender of each noun is indicated by the preceding definite article, and its plural is given in parentheses in most cases. (--) = no distinct plural form, even though a plural exists. For strong/irregular verbs, I have listed slightly modified verb class labels in the answer section. This will tell you the vowel change patterns for the infinitive, simple past, and past participle respectively. To say that ‘verbergen’ is a Class 4 verb, then, is to say that it follows an e-a-o vowel change pattern (verbergen, verbarg, verborgen). I recommend learning these patterns.
If you find more than three errors, send the suggested corrections to christoverall2 @ gmail .com [no spaces], and I will try to update the deck.
Study well!
Partial listing of words omitted from the ‘500’ Siliakus German list: Abhängigkeit, Agende, Allegorese, Änderung, Anregung, Aufhebung, Auflösung, aufmerksam, aufmerksam machen auf, Aufnahme, auf/stellen, Auspägung, Bedürfnis, Begründung, Behandlung, Dogmengeschichte (DG), Eindruck, Einsicht, Einzigkeit, entspringen, erforschen, Erhaltung, Erlöser, Gemeindeglied, Gemeindepredigt, Gottesvolk, Haupstück, Hörer, Kirchenbegriff, Kirchenrecht, Kirchenverfassung, Lehrbuch, Mächtekampf, Massstab, Missionspredigt, Publizist, Sachverhalt, Schöpfungsglaube, Seelsorge, Selbständigkeit, Souveränitätsakt, überliefern, Umgang, Umgebung, Verständnis, Volkskunde, Weltschöpfung, Willkür, willkürlich, Wirksamkeit, Zelt, Zugehörigkeit, Zunge, Zusammenkunft.