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    The perfect tense in German is used to describe past events, such as something that happened an hour ago or yesterday. It is formed with an auxiliary verb (haben or sein) and the past participle of the main verb. For regular verbs, the past participle is formed by removing the "-en" ending and adding "ge-" and "-t". Common regular past participles include gelernt, gemacht, gekocht, gekauft, geraucht, gewohnt, gefragt, and gesagt. Weak verbs use "haben" as the auxiliary verb and can have three English translations depending on context. Examples are provided of conjugating "spielen" in

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    The perfect tense in German is used to describe past events, such as something that happened an hour ago or yesterday. It is formed with an auxiliary verb (haben or sein) and the past participle of the main verb. For regular verbs, the past participle is formed by removing the "-en" ending and adding "ge-" and "-t". Common regular past participles include gelernt, gemacht, gekocht, gekauft, geraucht, gewohnt, gefragt, and gesagt. Weak verbs use "haben" as the auxiliary verb and can have three English translations depending on context. Examples are provided of conjugating "spielen" in

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    The perfect tense in German is used to describe past events, such as something that happened an hour ago or yesterday. It is formed with an auxiliary verb (haben or sein) and the past participle of the main verb. For regular verbs, the past participle is formed by removing the "-en" ending and adding "ge-" and "-t". Common regular past participles include gelernt, gemacht, gekocht, gekauft, geraucht, gewohnt, gefragt, and gesagt. Weak verbs use "haben" as the auxiliary verb and can have three English translations depending on context. Examples are provided of conjugating "spielen" in

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    Das Perfekt - The Perfect Tense

    The perfect tense is used to describe events in the past, for example, what happened
    an hour ago, yesterday, last week.

    To form the perfect tense you need 2 parts,


     an auxiliary (or helping) verb ‘haben’ or ‘sein’
     a past participle – for weak (regular) verbs follow this pattern :

    1) take the infinitive e.g. spielen (to play)


    2) take off the ending (-en) spiel-
    3) put ge- on the front and add a ‘t’ = gespielt

    Work out the past participle (p.p.) of these (weak/regular) verbs:

    lernen/ machen/ kochen/ kaufen/rauchen/wohnen/fragen/sagen

    Weak verbs are conjugated with the present tense of ‘haben’ in the perfect tense.
    There are three possible English translations of the one German form.
    For example:
    spielen- to play

    ich habe ….. gespielt I have played/I played/I did play


    du hast ….. gespielt you have played etc.

    er hat ….. gespielt he or it has played


    sie hat ….. gespielt she or it has played
    es hat ….. gespielt it has played
    man hat …. gespielt one has played

    wir haben …gespielt we have played


    ihr habt … gespielt you (plural) have played
    Sie haben ... gespielt you (formal) have played

    sie haben … gespielt they have played


    Vorsicht!

    1. The past participle must go to the end of a main clause.


    zum Beispiel. Ich habe Tennis gespielt.
    I played tennis.

    2. Normal word order rules still apply.

    z.B. Gestern habe ich Tennis gespielt.


    Yesterday I played tennis.

    3. In a subordinate clause the auxiliary verb, e.g. ‘haben’ goes to the end.

    z.B. Ich gehe nicht wandern, weil es geregnet hat.


    I’m not going hiking because it has rained.

    4. The past participle never changes.

    5. The past participles of strong (irregular) verbs do not follow a pattern. Learn
    them from a verb list.

    Aufgabe: Ergänzen Sie diese Tabelle:

    Infinitiv Das Perfekt (3rd p.sing.) Englisch (x1)


    sprechen es hat…gesprochen it has spoken
    trinken
    lesen
    essen
    finden
    vergessen
    gefallen
    sitzen
    schreiben
    sehen
    tragen
    waschen
    schließen
    helfen
    singen
    nehmen
    haben
    empfehlen
    leiden
    rufen
    stehlen
    gewinnen
    brechen
    backen

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