Past - Pluperfect (Leaving Cert German): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
12 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
12 cards from this deck
What does Plusquamperfekt describe?
What does Plusquamperfekt describe?
Past before other past events
German name meaning 'pre-past'
German name meaning 'pre-past'
Vorvergangenheit
Plusquamperfekt formation
Plusquamperfekt formation
Hilfsverb im Präteritum + Partizip II
Tense for auxiliary in Plusquamperfekt
Tense for auxiliary in Plusquamperfekt
Präteritum
'haben' in Präteritum (ich form)
'haben' in Präteritum (ich form)
hatte
'sein' in Präteritum (ich form)
'sein' in Präteritum (ich form)
war
When to use 'sein' in Plusquamperfekt
When to use 'sein' in Plusquamperfekt
Movement, change of state, intransitive verbs
When to use 'haben' in Plusquamperfekt
When to use 'haben' in Plusquamperfekt
All other cases, almost all weak verbs
Conjunction meaning 'after' signalling Plusquamperfekt
Conjunction meaning 'after' signalling Plusquamperfekt
nachdem
Conjunction meaning 'before' signalling Plusquamperfekt
Conjunction meaning 'before' signalling Plusquamperfekt
bevor
Timeline order in Plusquamperfekt sentences
Timeline order in Plusquamperfekt sentences
Plusquamperfekt → Präteritum/Perfekt → Now
Where Plusquamperfekt commonly used
Where Plusquamperfekt commonly used
Written German & formal contexts (rare in everyday speech)