The most basic tense, it is what all of the other rules are based on.
iche dust chart
e
en
st
t
e
en
past
present Perfect
conversational past, the easiest form to use and the first
to be learned in class, from german 2
replace the verb with the correct form of sein or haben. Then
place the past participle at the end of the sentence.
rules for past participle
strong verbs
weak verbs
fourth column of verb sheet
GE+stem+T
essen->gegessen
kochen->gekocht
Past Perfect
the second tense to be learned in class from german 2
replace the verb with the correct form of waren or hatten.
Then place the past participle at the end of the sentence.
rules for past participle
strong verbs
weak verbs
fourth column of verb sheet
GE+stem+T
essen->gegessen
kochen->gekocht
narrative or simple past
final past tense to be learned in class from german 2. Can be either the
simplest or the hardest depending on how you learn it.
all you do is use the narrative past form of the verb.
That is all you do.
strong verbs:
3rd column stem+ ending
none
en
st
t
none
en
weak verbs:
stem+ ending
te
ten
test
tet
te
ten
future
this is by far the easiest tense besides present
replace the verb with the correct form of werden. Then
place the infinitive at the end of the sentence.
conjugation of werden
werde
werden
wirst
werdet
wird
werden
subjunctive
present
the First tense to be learned in class from german 3
there are two ways to do this as illustrated below
stem(verb sheet or normal)+ ending
e
en
est
et
e
en
the other way is to replace the verb with
würde and place the infinitive at
the end
past
hätten/wären replaces the verb
then place the past participle at the end.
rules for past participle
strong verbs
weak verbs
fourth column of verb sheet
GE+stem+T
essen->gegessen
kochen->gekocht
modal verbs
present
The most basic tense, it is still german one even though were dealing with
modal verbs.
wollen
will
wollen
willst
wollt
will
wollen
sollen
soll
sollen
sollst
sollt
soll
sollen
müssen
muss
müssen
musst
müsst
muss
müssen
dürfen
darf
dürfen
darfst
dürft
darf
dürfen
können
kann
können
kannst
könnt
kann
können
mögen
mag
mögen
magst
mögt
mag
mögen
past and subjunctive present
new stem (see chart) + ending will replace the verb
present to past to subjunctive
present
past
subjunctive
mögen
mochten
möchten
wollen
wollten
wollten
sollen
sollten
sollten
dürfen
durfen
dürfen
müssen
mussten
müssten
können
konnten
könnten
endings for past and subjunctive
te
ten
test
tet
te
ten
subjunctive past
this should be
very simple after all of that!
hätten goes in the verb's place and the subjunctive
modal verb(see above chart) moves to the end
after the infinitive verb
