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THE PERFECT TENSE IN GERMAN

Talking about the past

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Perfect Tense

•In this lesson you will learn some examples of the past tense in German

•You will learn how to form the past tense and apply the rules to simple sentences

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Present Tense

•Let’s look at some of these verbs in the present tense

•You should by now have used many of these verbs in your writing!

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Present Tense

• I play football• Ich spiele Fussball

• I am doing English• Ich mache Englisch

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Present Tense

• I eat chips• Ich esse

Pommes

• I drink coke• Ich trinke

Cola

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Changing from Present into Past

• The big difference between present and past is that you need two verbs (doing words) instead of one.

• These two verbs are:

• a part of the verb ‘haben’ – to have or ‘sein’ – to be

• a ‘past participle’

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Haben and Sein•You should already know how to use these two verbs. You have been using them since the start of the course.

•Let’s have a look at the two verbs.

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haben – to have• I have• you have• he has• she has• we have• you have

(polite)• they have

• ich habe• du hast• er hat• sie hat• wir haben• Sie haben• sie haben

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sein – to be• I am•you are•he is•she is•we are•you (polite)

are• they are

• Ich bin•du bist•er ist•sie ist•wir sind•Sie sind•sie sind

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HABEN OR SEIN?•Most verbs use haben.

•A small group use sein and they are almost all to do with MOVING

E.g gehen, fahren, fliegen etc..

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•WHAT IS A PAST PARTICIPLE?

•It is like …ed in English • •E.g played, lived

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HOW DO WE MAKE THE PAST PARTICIPLE?

spielen

1.Take the infinitive

and cross off the ‘en’

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2. Then add ge....t

Ich habe Tennis gespielt.

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•spielen gespielt•machen gemacht

•hören gehört

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hören

Ich habe Musik gehört

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wohnen

Ich habe in

England gewohnt

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Using this rule, what would the past participle of these verbs

be?

haben kaufenspielen tanzen

sagen sparenschauen faulenzenmachen plauderen

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gehabt gekauftgespielt getanztgesagt gespartgeschautgefaulenztgemacht

geplaudert

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REMEMBER1. All verbs go with haben

except those which involve motion (e.g. to go)

2. The haben/sein goes at the START of the sentence next to the subject (I, you etc.)

3. The past participle always goes at the END of the sentence

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Ich habe Rugby

gespielt

Ich habe Fussball gespielt

Ich habe Tischtennis

gespielt

Ich habe Musik gehört

Ich habe Basketball gespielt

Ich habe getanzt

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he she we

they

Er hat Rugby gespielt

Sie hat Fussball gespielt

Wir haben Hausaufgaben gemacht

Sie haben Tischtennis gespielt

• Ich habe

• Du hast• Er/sie

hat• Wir

haben• Sie

haben

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he sheshe we

Sie hat Basketball gespielt

Er hat Musik gehört

Wir haben Tischtennis gespielt

Sie hat getanzt


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