GrammarA1· Mein Wochenende

Das Perfekt

The perfect tense (talking about the past)

Kartoffel · your teacher

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1What & when

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In a statement, haben or sein comes second, the last.

Before

Ich schlafe lange.

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habe takes . The verb goes to the end as a : geschlafen.

„Ich habe lange geschlafen.“ — I slept in.

Kartoffel

First, what is it?

Germans mostly use the to talk about the past: yesterday, last weekend, the holiday. It has two parts. The first is a form of haben or sein. The second is the of the main verb, a form like gemacht or geschlafen:

Kartoffel

And when do you need it? More often than you'd think:

Mein WochenendeIn spoken German, the is the normal past for almost every verb. Every Monday morning you hear it: –

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