A new experience: perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'in' and 'auf'
I can use the perfect tense to understand and write about recent experiences.
- Year 8
A new experience: perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'in' and 'auf'
I can use the perfect tense to understand and write about recent experiences.
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Key learning points
- Strong past participles are formed by 'ge-' and '–en' surrounding the stem; the stem may have a vowel change, too.
- With certain verbs, often verbs of movement to a destination, the perfect tense is formed with ‘sein’, not 'haben'.
- With movement, prepositions 'in' and 'auf' mean 'into' and 'onto', and are followed by the accusative case.
- When starting sentences with time adverbs to sequence narration, we use word order 2 so that the verb remains second.
Keywords
Perfect tense - 2-verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Strong past participle - past participle that sandwiches the stem with 'ge-' and ‘-en’ and often changes the stem vowel, e.g., 'geschrieben'
Word order 2 (WO2) - sentence order in which an element other than the subject starts the sentence; verb and subject invert so that the verb remains the second idea
Common misconception
It is only the verb in a sentence that can tell us whether the action of the verb implies movement towards a destination or a static location.
The case (form of the article 'the' or 'a') used after prepositions 'in' and 'auf' tells us whether movement or location are implied, e.g., when the article is in the accusative case ('in den', 'in die', 'ins') it means 'into' and indicates movement.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Ich habe __________ Unterricht.'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
