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In this article, we'll recap the two German versions of past tense and when to use which one, and we'll do a quiz for the few tricky verbs where it's not that simple.
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We'll learn how to build the Superlative form in German, what exceptions there are, and when to use the version with "am".
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In this exercise, we'll practice when to use the spoken past and when to use the preterite in idiomatic German. It's hard, but it's fair and kind of sexy.
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The German version of "simple past" is used with only about two dozen verbs in daily life - haben, sein, the modals and verbs like gehen or finden.
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In this episode, we'll learn the rules for the regular preterit and go over the irregular forms of the most common verbs. With lots of examples.
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In this intense but fun article, we'll learn all we need to make comparsions in German, including and often asked question about word order.
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Yes or no questions in German are easy because they always start with the verb. Always. So you say "Can you? Have you? Go you? Sleep you?"
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The German question words are very similar to English, but there are some traps. And the sentence structure is quite different. Today, we'll learn all of that.
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All about the perfect in German, also called spoken past - when to use it, how to form the past participle, aka ge-form and when to use "sein" and "haben".
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German has two types of past - the preterit and the perfect. Today, we'll learn when to use which and why spoken past and written past might be the better names.
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German has a few "irregular" verbs - haben, sein and wissen, and the modal verbs können, wollen, müssen, dürfen, sollen and mögen. Today, we do present tense.
Vocabulary
haben, sein, wollen, können, mögen, dürfen, sollen, müssen, wissen
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The present tense for most German verbs is regular and very easy. What's tricky is the vowel shift, and especially the word order with prefixes.
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We'll learn the basic personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it and so on) in German. And we'll run into two very annoying bits of German grammar.
