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Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'

I can confidently use a range of verbs in the perfect and imperfect tenses, and apply this knowledge to listening, reading, and translation tasks with a historical context.

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Year 10
AQA

Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'

I can confidently use a range of verbs in the perfect and imperfect tenses, and apply this knowledge to listening, reading, and translation tasks with a historical context.

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Key learning points

  1. Form the perfect tense with ‘haben’ or ‘sein’, plus a past participle, placed at the end of the clause.
  2. The imperfect tense is a single-word past tense, using endings attached to the verb stem. It is mostly written.
  3. Strong verbs have irregular stems in the imperfect tense. The past participles of some verbs are also irregular.
  4. The imperfect tense forms ‘hatte’, ‘war’, and ‘es gab’ are often used in spoken as well as written German.
  5. Use ‘früher’ with a past tense to mean ‘in the past’ or ‘used to’.

Keywords

  • Perfect tense - past tense formed using either ‘haben’ or ‘sein’ with a past participle, which goes to the end of the clause, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'

  • Imperfect tense - single-word past tense, used mainly to narrate past events in writing, e.g., 'ich machte'

  • Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with 'haben' or 'sein', e.g., 'gemacht', 'gesehen'

Common misconception

The imperfect tense is only ever written.

Whilst the imperfect tense is mainly used to narrate past events in written German, some forms are regularly used in spoken German, such as 'es gab', 'war' and 'hatte'.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these verbs are in the imperfect tense?
Correct answer: dachte
gedacht
Correct answer: brachte
gebracht
Correct answer: nahm
Q2.
Which preposition is used with the verb 'schützen'?
an
auf
für
mit
Correct answer: vor
Q3.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:Landschaft (f),landscape, countryside

landscape, countryside

Correct Answer:Luft (f),air

air

Correct Answer:Mitarbeiter (m),employee, co-worker

employee, co-worker

Correct Answer:Natur (f),nature

nature

Correct Answer:Programm (nt),programme

programme

Correct Answer:Schwierigkeit (f),difficulty

difficulty

Q4.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:,ate

ate

Correct Answer:begann,began

began

Correct Answer:ging,went

went

Correct Answer:lag,lay

lay

Correct Answer:saß,sat

sat

Correct Answer:tat,did, put

did, put

Q5.
Order the words to say: 'I sold a ticket for the Vienna Film Festival.'
1 - ich
2 - habe
3 - eine
4 - Karte
5 - für
6 - die Viennale
7 - verkauft
Q6.
Write in German: 'We have played in the park.'
Correct Answer: wir haben im Park gespielt, wir haben in dem Park gespielt

4 Questions

Q1.
Which statements apply to the imperfect tense?
Correct answer: It is used mainly in written German.
It is used mainly in spoken German.
Correct answer: It is a single-word past tense.
It uses the present-tense form of ‘haben’ or ‘sein’, plus the past participle.
Correct answer: It uses endings attached to the verb stem.
Q2.
Which verb does not have an irregular past participle?
bringen
denken
nennen
Correct answer: spielen
wissen
Q3.
Order the words to say: 'There was lots of traffic in the past and it was loud.'
1 - es gab
2 - früher
3 - viel
4 - Verkehr
5 - und
6 - es war
7 - laut
Q4.
Write in German, using the imperfect tense: 'I won the prize.'
Correct Answer: ich gewann den Preis

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