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Title: TENSES There are six tenses in English German


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TENSESThere are six tenses in English German
  • present tense
  • I sing.
  • Ich singe.
  • simple past
  • I sang.
  • Ich sang.
  • present perfect
  • I have sung.
  • Ich habe gesungen
  • past perfect
  • I had sung.
  • Ich hatte gesungen.
  • future
  • I will sing.
  • Ich werde singen.
  • future perfect
  • I will have sung.
  • Ich werde gesungen haben.

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present perfect tense
  • I have sung.
  • a. aux.
  • have
  • b. past participle
  • sing / sang / sung
  • Ich habe gesungen
  • a. aux
  • haben
  • b. Partizip Perfekt
  • singen / sang / gesungen

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PERFEKT
  • aux
  • haben
  • or
  • sein
  • sein is used as an auxilliary for verbs that
  • a. are intransitive
  • b. indicate change of location or condition
  • c. seinwerdenbleiben
  • past participle
  • regular- weak verbs
  • machen gt ge mach t
  • - strong verbs
  • kommen gt ge komm en
  • nehmen gt ge nomm en
  • irregular verbs
  • sein gt ge wes en
  • bringen gt ge brach t

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  • There are some small irregularities in forming
  • the past participle in German
  • 1. verbs ending in - ieren
  • studieren studiert
  • gratulieren gratuliert
  • 2. verbs with an inseparable prefix
  • erzählen erzählt
  • verstehen verstanden
  • 3. verbs with a separable prefix
  • abreisen abgereist
  • ankommen angekommen

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to form the present perfect tense in German you
need
  • an auxilliary verb
  • HABEN or SEIN
  • as a rule HABEN is
  • used. SEIN is used with
  • intransitive verbs
  • indicating a change of
  • position or condition
  • and the verbs
  • sein werden
  • bleiben
  • the past participle
  • a. regular verbs
  • ge stem (e)t
  • kaufen gekauft
  • kosten gekostet
  • b. irregular verbs
  • ge special formen
  • kommen gekommen
  • nehmen genommen

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... and there is absolutely no alternative to
memorizing the strong irregular past participles
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Present Perfect Tense incl. modal
  • Present tense Ich rufe dich an.
  • Perfect tense Ich habe dich angerufen
  • Present tense Ich muß dich anrufen.
  • Perfect tense Ich habe dich anrufen müssen
  • _____________________________________
  • In the perfect tense modals appear at
  • the end of the phrase in the infinitive!
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