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03-A: Verbs and Personal Pronouns (Present Tense)

by Marion Charlotte Oploh


Verbs are words which express  what we are doing  or someone is doing.


Example:                      Infinitive   =    (the basic form of a verb)

      • denk -en            to think  
      • geh   -en        -     to go
      • lieb    -en        -    to love


Verb endings change according to Personal Pronouns

(Lesson:   04: Personal Pronouns -Nominative-)


If you look at the table in lesson 03-B you'll see

1. The Infinitive of a verb always ends in -en.

2. The part or the word before -en is called the stem or the root of the verb.

3. The individual endings are added to this root of the verb.

4. Verbs used with 3rd Person Singular -er-sie-es- and 2nd Person Plural -ihr- have the
     same ending = -t

5. Verbs used with 1st Person Plural -wir-, 3rd Person Plural -sie- and the Polite Form -Sie
    end (like the Infinitive) in -en.


They are easy to learn, as tthe endings of all verbs (regular and irregular in the Past tense)
are always the same. Look at these examples:



             Go to:
03-B: Table of conjugation of regular an irregular Verbs

04: Personal Pronouns -Nominative-

03-B2: Cojugation of regular Verbs - TEST












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