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German Past Tense 1 – An Overview

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 Past Tense 2 – Spoken Past

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 Past Tense 3 – The Preterit

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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