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Strong or Irregular Verbs: Mastering Perfect Tense

Learn how to navigate the strong or irregular verbs in German, particularly in the Perfect Tense. Discover their patterns and vowel changes to improve your language skills. Good luck!

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Strong or Irregular Verbs: Mastering Perfect Tense

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  1. Session 2Perfect Tense Starke oderirreguläreVerben Strong or irregular verbs

  2. Like in English some verbs just don’t know how to behave! They have a strong will and do their own thing. That’s why they are called strong verbs!The Past Participles of a lot of those strong verbs end in –EN. Many also have a vowel change (e.g. ‘Ich trinke  Ich habe getrunken’) and others are completely irregular! To make it a bit easier for you to learn the strong verbs, I have tried to put them into ‘logical groups’. Viel Glück!

  3. Irregular verbs using ‘HABEN’ Sie hat ein Buch gelesen Wir haben Mittag gegessen Ich habe meine Freunde getroffen Wir haben einen Film gesehen Er hat Cola getrunken Ich habe Taschengeld bekommen

  4. I have put the strong (irregular) verbs into 6 different groups

  5. Strong verbs – participles like the infinitive - no --ge vergessen(to forget) – Ich habe_vergessen(I forgot) Perfect Tense – strong verbs – vowel change ei ie AND ie  o schreiben(to write) – wir haben_geschrieben(we wrote) Perfect Tense – strong verbs – vowel change i u AND i o AND i  a trinken(to drink) – du hast_getrunken(you drank)

  6. Perfect Tense – strong verbs – vowel change e  o treffen(to meet) – Ich habe_getroffen(I met) Perfect Tense – strong verbs – vowel change e e AND i(e)  e essen(to eat) – sie hat_gegessen (she ate) Perfect Tense – strong verbs – vowel change a a tragen(to wear) – Ich habe_getragen(I wore)

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