The Perfect Tense in German

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The Perfect Tense in German
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• Everybody loves the PERFECT TENSE.

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• When you are forming the perfect tense in German,
  you must first ask yourself a very important
  question

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• DOES THIS VERB TAKE HABEN OR SEIN???

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• How can you tell????

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• You ask yourself
• DOES THIS VERB TAKE SEIN?

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• DOES THIS VERB TAKE SEIN?
• If it doesnt, it automatically takes HABEN!!!

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• HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A VERB TAKES SEIN???

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• Verbs that take SEIN fall into THREE groups

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• SEIN verbs group 1
• VERBS OF MOTION

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• VERBS OF MOTION are generally verbs that tell
  you how you got from point A to point B

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• for example,
• GEHEN (to go)
• FAHREN (to travel)
• FLIEGEN (to fly)

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• and many others!!!

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• SEIN verbs group 2
• VERBS THAT IMPLY A CHANGE IN PHYSICAL STATE

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• VERBS THAT IMPLY A CHANGE IN PHYSICAL STATE
  include verbs like the following

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• STERBEN (to die)
• EINSCHLAFEN (to fall asleep)
• AUFTAUEN (to melt)

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• SEIN verbs group 3
• FUNNY VERBS

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• FUNNY VERBS are verbs that dont fit into the
  other two groups, yet still take SEIN

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• Here they are
• WERDEN (to become)
• BLEIBEN (to stay)
• SEIN (to be)

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• And if your verb doesnt fit into one of these
  groups, what do you use???

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• HABEN!!!

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• Having dealt with the first part of the PERFECT
  TENSE, you now need to deal with the second part

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• THE PAST PARTICIPLE

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• There are two types of past participles

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• REGULAR (WEAK)
• and
• IRREGULAR (STRONG)

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• REGULAR (WEAK) VERBS ARE EASY!!!

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• Start with the INFINITIVE.

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• WOHNEN

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• WOHNEN
• take off the EN ending

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• WOHNEN

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• WOHNEN

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• WOHN

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• WOHN
• add GE to the front

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• GE WOHN

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• GE WOHN

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• GE WOHN

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• GE WOHN

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• GEWOHN

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• GEWOHN
• ...and T to the end!!!

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• GEWOHN T

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• GEWOHN T

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• GEWOHN T

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• GEWOHNT

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• GEWOHNT

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• IRREGULAR (STRONG) VERBS are more difficult!!!

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• The past participles will start with GE and end
  in EN, and there may be some change in the middle
  too!!

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• Hard cheese!!

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• Hard cheese!!
• These have to be learned off by heart!!!

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• Here are some examples

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• The past participle of SCHREIBEN is

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• GESCHRIEBEN!

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• The past participle of GEHEN is

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• GEGANGEN!

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• The past participle of ESSEN is

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• GEGESSEN!!

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• and there are many, MANY others!!!

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• and there are many, MANY others!!!
• Get learning!!!

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• Points of interest

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• In a normal German sentence, the HABEN or SEIN
  bit occupies the NORMAL POSITION of the VERB

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• 2nd IDEA

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• and the PAST PARTICIPLE should be LAST!!!

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• LAST

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• Ende!!
• Machts gut!!!