Review from GR 102
Getting Started: Clear out the cobwebs from summer vacation!
REVIEW
Ex. A: Was haben Sie im Sommer/im Winter gemacht? Erläutern Sie! Verwenden Sie das Perfekt.
Ich habe ________________…
Ich bin________________…
Need a quick review of conversational past?
- Uses a helping verb—either haben or sein.
- Use “haben” for verbs that don’t involve travling from point A to B.
- Beispiel: Ich habe Fußball gespielt. Du hast einen Artikel gelesen. Die Kinder haben getanzt.
- Use “sein” for verbs that involve moving from point A to point B
- Beispiel: Wir sind nach Hause gegangen. Ich bin durch den Wald gelaufen. Er ist gestern geschwommen.
- Use “sein” for bleiben and werden. (i.e. stay/remain and become)
- Beispiel: Das Wetter ist kalt geworden. Ich bin gestern zu Hause geblieben.
- Use “haben” for verbs that don’t involve travling from point A to B.
- Some past participles (the ge-form at the end) are regular; others are irregular.
- Regular participles will have –t at the end, just like regular ones in English have an –ed.
- Beispiel: gespielt–>played
- Irregular participles will have –en at the end. Irregular ones in English can have anything; they just don’t have an –ed at the end.
- Beispiel: getrunken–>drunk
- 90% rule: If you can’t figure out whether or not the participle will be irregular or regular, look at what the word does in English. It will follow the English pattern 90% of the time. If it is regular in English, there’s a 90% chance that it will be regular in German. If it is irregular in English, there’s a 90% chance it will be irregular in German.
- Lots of irregular verbs have patterns
- schreiben–>geschrieben (ei switches to ie)
- singen–>gesungen; trinken–>getrunken (sing, sung; drink, drunk in English)
- Regular participles will have –t at the end, just like regular ones in English have an –ed.
- –ieren verbs: Verbs ending in –ieren will always be regular, i.e. end in a –t. However, they do not take a ge– at the beginning of the participle.
- Beispiel: Wir haben unser Auto repariert. Du hast mich fotografiert.
- Inseparable prefix verbs: Inseparable prefix verbs also don’t take a ge– in the participle.
- Beispiel: Hast du deine Hausaufgaben vergessen? Ich habe meine Tante besucht.
- Separable prefix verbs: Put the ge– between the prefix and the verb, i.e. where the dot normally goes in the dictionary listing in the textbook.
- Beispiel: Wir sind gestern mitgekommen. Die Studentin hat ihre Mutter angerufen.
- Mixed verbs (mixed-up verbs): 3 or 4 verbs in the whole language are mixed. This means they have –t at the end but are irregular. It’s best to just memorize these. Here they are.
- bringen—gebracht. (like English bring, brought has a silent –gh- like the German –ch-)
- kennen—gekannt
- nennen—genannt
- rennen–gerannt
- wissen—gewusst
- HINT: Don’t panic if you’ve forgotten some of this over the summer. You’ll get it back with practice.
Watch YourGermanTeacher’s videos to see him reteaching this:
You also learned the simple past forms of the verbs haben and sein. Look over the review chart and try the review to see how much you remember. (Courtesy of Claudia Kost & Crystal Sawatzky, University of Alberta.)
And now another review courtesy of Kost/Sawatzky with both conversational past and simple past (haben/sein).
LISTENING REVIEW: Listen to Linda introduce herself (courtesy of AudioLingua) and answer the questions. You will hear family member vocabulary, occupations, and conversational past.