The perfect tense with haben (AQA GCSE German): Flashcards

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The perfect tense with haben
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Purpose of the perfect tense

To talk about actions and events that happened in the past

Two parts of the perfect tense

Auxiliary verb + past participle

Auxiliary verb most verbs use

haben

Auxiliary verb reflexive verbs use

haben

Formula for regular past participles

ge- + stem + -t

How to find the verb stem

Remove the -en ending

Past participle of 'spielen'

gespielt

Past participle of 'essen'

gegessen

Past participle of 'trinken'

getrunken

Past participle of 'nehmen'

genommen

Where the past participle goes in a sentence

At the end

Rule for verbs with inseparable prefixes

Do NOT add ge- at the beginning

Examples of inseparable prefixes

ver-, be-, em-, er-, ge-

Past participle of 'bekommen'

bekommen

Past participle of 'machen'

gemacht

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