GrammarA1· Leute kennenlernen
Das Präsens
The present tense: verb endings
Kartoffel · your teacher
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6 parts · about 5 min
1What & when
In one line
In one lineTake the stem and add the person's ending: ich wohne, du wohnst, er wohnt.
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Ich wohne in Berlin.
Watch the sentence change …
The ending follows the : ich wohne, wir wohnen.
„Wir wohnen in Berlin.“ — We live in Berlin.
Kartoffel
First, what is it?
The present tense, das Präsens, is the first verb form you learn. In it, the verb (the action word) changes its ending. The ending matches the person who does the action.
Kartoffel
And when do you need it? More often than you'd think:
Leute kennenlernenYou need it whenever you say what is true now or in general. You say who you are, where you are from, where you live and what you do. At a party you need it in every sentence:
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