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German A2: Expanded Spoken Past Narration

Learn to narrate past events in German using the perfect tense, including separable verbs, inseparable verbs, and verbs of motion with 'sein'.

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28 Cards
Lesson#1
In this deck, we'll expand on the perfect tense to help you tell short stories about your past experiences. You'll learn how to form the past tense for different types of common verbs and how to connect sentences to create a simple narrative.
Lesson#2
Let's start with separable verbs, like 'einkaufen' for 'to shop'. In the perfect tense, the 'ge' particle goes between the prefix and the verb stem. So, 'einkaufen' becomes 'eingekauft'. For example, 'Ich habe eingekauft' means 'I went shopping'.
Quiz#3
How do you say 'I called my friend' in German, referring to a male and using the perfect tense for anrufen?

Ich habe meinen Freund angerufen.

Quiz#4
Translate into German: 'We went shopping yesterday.'

Wir haben gestern eingekauft.

Quiz#5
How do you say 'She watched TV in the evening' in German, using the perfect tense for 'fernsehen'?

Sie hat am Abend ferngesehen.

Lesson#6
Next are inseparable verbs. These are verbs with prefixes like 'be-', 'er-', 'ver-', and 'ent-'. They are simpler: they do not take a 'ge-' in the past participle. For example, 'besuchen', meaning 'to visit', becomes 'besucht'. 'Ich habe meine Tante besucht' means 'I visited my aunt'.

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