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German Regular Verbs in the Present Tense

How to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense in German
     

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German Regular Verbs in the Present Tense

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To conjugate means to give the different forms of a verb depending on the

subject.  English only has two regular conjugations in the present tense,
no ending
and -s ending (I, you, we, they run vs. he/she/it
runs).  To
conjugate regular verbs in German, remove the -en ending and add the following
endings (though some
of these verbs require spelling changes (german-spelling-changes.html) in addition to adding these endings):

-e -en

-st -t

-t -en

Regular Verbs in the Present Tense

antworten * to answer machen to make

arbeiten to work passieren to happen

beginnen to begin rauchen to smoke

bekommen to get reisen to travel

benutzen to use rennen to run

besuchen to visit rufen to call

bezahlen to pay for sagen to say

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bleiben to remain/stay schlafen to sleep

brauchen to need schreiben to write

dauern to last schwimmen to swim

denken to think sehen * to see

entdecken to discover singen to sing

erfinden to invent sitzen * to sit

ergänzen to complete sparen to save (money)

erlauben to permit stecken to put

erzählen to tell stehen to stand

essen * to eat studieren to study

finden to find suchen to look for

fischen to fish tanzen to dance

fliegen to fly treffen * to meet

fragen to ask trennen to separate

gehen to go trinken to drink

gewinnen to win verdienen to earn (money)

glauben to believe/think vergessen to forget

helfen * to help verlieren to lose

kaufen to buy versprechen to promise

kennen to know (people) verstehen to understand

kommen to come warten to wait

laufen * to run waschen * to wash

lehren to teach winken to wave

lernen to learn wischen to wipe

lieben to love wünschen to wish/desire

liegen to lay ziehen to move

English has three ways of expressing the present tense, such as I run, I
am running, I do run.  All three of these tenses are translated as one
tense in German (ich
laufe.)  However, you can add gerade after
the verb to indicate the progressive form.  Ich mache meine
Hausaufgaben can be translated as I do my homework or
I'm doing my
homework.  Ich mache gerade meine Hausaufgaben is translated
as I'm doing my homework.

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