Deutsch A2–B1: Perfekt lernen + Übung (habe/bin & Partizip II)

If you want to express something in the past in German you simply need one tense But many German learners then make the mistake and form sentences such as I went home And that is naturally for all Germans Well quite wrong That's why you're learning everything important about the Perfekt and Partizip 2 in this video Welcome to my channel German with Nadine The perfect tense is the past tense used in spoken language Germans typically say "I have gone " "I have worked " I prepared Not I went I worked Because these forms of the so-called past tense Forming the perfect tense is child's play To begin with we need one of the auxiliary verbs ave or be and the so-called past participle I have worked eight hours I have completed the task Mom has gone home But how am I supposed to know whether I should use haben or sein as the auxiliary verb in my sentence now Here too there are two rules you should keep in mind Most verbs in German are actually formed using the auxiliary verb haben I worked eight hours I completed the task I cleaned the apartment But with the auxiliary verb "to be" there are two aspects e one you should particularly take into account The auxiliary verb "sein" is mainly used when we are talking about movement I went home I went on vacation We flew to Italy The point here is deliberately about us as individuals moving from point A to point B Another aspect is what' s known as state change I didn't fall asleep until 11 p m last night This morning I woke up as early as 5 a m A serious accident occurred on the road yesterday Also remember with movements and state changes you always form the perfect tense using the auxiliary verb "sein " With all other verbs Please use the auxiliary verb haben Now let's look at how we actually form the past participle in German The formation of the past participle With regular verbs it's child's play We take GE the verb stem and the ending T From this the forms then arise such as painted or built Verbs ending before their typical infinitive ending in D or for example T must be handled accordingly at the end add another E such as " gearbeitet" or "gebildet " But then you'll encounter this in everyday German usage such as eaten drunk or gone These are past participle forms of so -called irregular verbs And unfortunately with these verbs there is no rule you can follow to correctly use the past participle The key is to memorize these forms by heart and repeatedly practice them in everyday life You'll find these verbs and their forms on the list e irregular German verbs Now we already know the regular and the irregular verbs And what do we do next for example What about so-called separable verbs That's also very simple because the GE ends up between the prefix and our verb stem That's why you end up with such shapes ones you've surely seen in everyday life like bent standing or stepped-in forms There are also some verbs in German that do not have a GE in their past participle This is for example the case with so-called inseparable verbs Verbs of the case From this arise forms such as for example visited received or lost And not unvisited received or lost That's what you need to pay attention to Another group of verbs in the past participle that do not have GE all verbs ending in -en such as telefonieren informieren or meditieren The past participle of these forms then appears as the following way Stay informed meditate or make a phone call Something else you should pay attention to when using the perfect tense in German is the so-called reflexive verbs These are verbs that appear in conjunction with the word sich For example sich beeilen or sich treffen These verbs in German Perfect are formed with the auxiliary verb haben not with the auxiliary verb sein I hurried I've met with you As you know modal verbs like to dance out of step sometimes when it comes to grammatical rules And that's exactly what happens w Perfect no other way If you want to use the modal verb with a main verb in the perfect tense you need the auxiliary verb "have" every time And attention two infinitives at the end of the sentence Here we therefore need no past participle I had to cook the meal I'm sorry I couldn't make it But don't worry as a true German you don't need the perfect tense with modal verbs at all In everyday speech it's common to use the past tense here and say "I had to cook the meal" instead of "I have had to cook the meal " I had to cook the meal Instead of saying "I unfortunately couldn't come " just say "I unfortunately couldn't come " Also with the verbs Being and having are no different These two verbs are also very frequently used in the past tense in everyday German and never used in the perfect tense Instead of saying I have been to Berlin just say I was in Berlin Instead of saying I had vacation better say I had vacation and thus sound like a real German After forming the perfect tense Let's take another look at the correct sentence structure In ordinary declarative sentences your conjugated auxiliary verb have or be goes in position 2 and the past participle at the end of your sentence I drove home Mom cooked the meal The childre They have prepared the task In questions the conjugated auxiliary verb have or be comes in the first position and the past participle 2 at the end of your question Did you get home safely Has Mom already cooked dinner Have the children completed their task yet As you can see everything's half as bad as it seems Wild right Now it's your turn Please try rewriting the following 5 sentences into the perfect tense and put your answers below in the To set comments The children are running onto the playground Mama is reading a book We talk on the phone for three hours You get on the subway The children visit their grandmother in the hospital Have fun practicing That's it for my video on the German Perfekt and Partizip 2 If you found this video helpful please give a thumbs up subscribe to my channel and turn on the bell so you 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