1.6 - Tenses

English tenses differentiate between an action happening at the moment (I am working) and an action taking place regularly ( I work at Harrods). In German, this difference does not exist. The finite verb form is the same in both sentences.

🌡Ich arbeite - I am working
🌡Ich arbeite bei Harrods - I work at Harrods

The past in English expressed either by the present perfect tense (when something happened recently) or has a connection to the present ; I was working
- or the simple past tense ( when something happened at a certain time in the past) or has no link to the present ; I worked

German is simpler; you normally use the present perfect when you talk about the past regardless of when it happened, and you normally use the simple past in written German.
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⚪ Basic Tips & Patterns Checklist
1. Capital Letters for Nouns & Importants of The Umlauts
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2. The Genders
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3. Endings // Konjugation
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+ Adjektivendungen 🖇https://youtu.be/NArsxQXlWoM

4. Cases // Kasus
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5. Word Order
1.5.1 🖇https://youtu.be/jR4XeQxwGHQ
1.5.2 🖇https://youtu.be/Mty5HjzgNOc
1.5.3 🖇https://youtu.be/FtEtKoZkiPA
1.5.4 🖇https://youtu.be/jR4XeQxwGHQ

6. Tenses
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⚪ Verbs in the Present Tense

2.1 - What is Verb?

A verb usually describes what a person or any other subject is doing; 'I go to the cinema'. It can also describe a state; 'He is angry.'

2.2 - Verb Formation

German has more endings for verbs in the present tense than English. You take the stem of a verb then add the required ending. The stem is the form of the infinitive without -en or -n.

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1⃣Ich (I) - For first person (singular) you add -e the stem.
2⃣Du/Sie (You *singular) - There are 2 forms of address in German; the informal address is du and the formal address is Sie (always with an initial capital letter). The endings are -st for du and -en for Sie.
3⃣er/sie/es (he/she/it) - To talk about third person or thing you use er for 'he', sie (small s) for 'she' and es for 'it' in German. these you add -t to the stem.
4⃣Wir (we) - Overall the pural forms are much easier to learn. wir takes -en *the same form as most infinitives.
5⃣Ihr/Sie (you *plural) - As for the singular, there is an informal (ihr) and formal way (Sie) to address more than one person.
6⃣sie (they) - when referring to several people, German use sie (spelled with small s). You have to add -en

2.3 - One Present Tense in German

As we have seen, in German there is only one present tense which corresponds both to the simple and continous present tense in English.

💥Exceptions 💥

Although the majority of verbs in German follow the regular pattern described above, there are a number of exceptions (irregular form)

✏ Some verb have slight spelling variation or their stem vowel changes (unit 3)
✏Sein and Haben ('to be' or 'to have') are particularly irregular (unit 4).

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🎲 Quiz '⚪️ Verbs in the Present Tense'
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⚪ Verb Variations & Irregular Verbs

3.1 - Regular & Irregular Forms

Most verbs in German follow a regular pattern where the ending is simply added to the stem of the verb. But there are some variations where the spelling is slightly different. There is also a group of irregular verbs where there are changes in the stem of the verb.