verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb 'haben' or 'sein'

a single-word past tense, used mainly to narrate past events in writing, e.g., 'war', 'hatte', 'gab'

What did they do then? Perfect, imperfect 'war', 'hatte', 'gab', compound nouns

German

What you used to do: perfect tense with 'ihr' (you, familiar pl.) and 'früher'

Famous lives: 'als' as 'when' with the past tense

Famous German speakers: 'bevor' and 'nachdem', word order

Childhood experiences: nouns, past tense, conjunctions

This unit revisits past tenses. The perfect tense is consolidated as variations on past participle formation are practised. The imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab) is revisited, with question formation and word order 3 conjunctions. Pupils learn how to say calendar years in German.

Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses

The imperfect tense is a one-word past tense.

The perfect tense is a one-word past tense.

The historical present is mostly used in spoken German.

The imperfect tense is mostly used in written German.

The historical present is the most commonly used tense to talk about the past.

Which verbs do **not** form their past participles by sandwiching the verb stem with 'ge-' and '-t' or '-en'?

Which verbs have a vowel change in their past participle?

'Er gab mir __________ Buch.' Which articles could complete this sentence?

Order the words to say: 'We drank a small bottle of water.'

Write in the perfect tense in German: 'I found the house'.

Starter Quiz