Medizin früher und heute: 'es gibt' vs 'es gab', imperfect
I can understand the imperfect tense in the context of past medical developments and influential ideas, and I can contrast past and present using 'es gibt' and 'es gab'.
Medizin früher und heute: 'es gibt' vs 'es gab', imperfect
I can understand the imperfect tense in the context of past medical developments and influential ideas, and I can contrast past and present using 'es gibt' and 'es gab'.
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Key learning points
- Weak verbs form the imperfect tense by adding these endings to the verb stem: -te, -test, -te, -ten, -tet, -ten.
- Strong verbs have irregular stems in the imperfect tense, with vowel changes and endings: -, st, -, en, t, en.
- The verbs ‘sein’, ‘haben’, modal verbs and 'es gab' are commonly used in spoken as well as written German.
- Use 'es gibt' to mean 'there is, are' and 'es gab' to mean 'there was, were', followed by the accusative case.
- Use 'es gibt' and 'es gab' to contrast present and past.
Keywords
Imperfect tense - German single-word past tense used mainly to narrate past events in writing
Es gibt - means 'there is, there are' and is a general statement that something exists
Es gab - means 'there was, there were', the past tense of 'es gibt'
Common misconception
The imperfect tense is never used in spoken German.
The irregular verbs 'haben' and 'sein', modal verbs and 'es gab' are all common in spoken German. Other verbs in the imperfect mainly appear in written texts.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
workplace
data
pretty
to exist, existing
narrow
to create
saw
ran
was
there was/ were
had
played
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
male doctor
to smoke, smoking
pain
hospital
to suffer from
female doctor
verdiente
verdientest
verdiente
verdientet