Anna bumps into another person who seems to know her. This time it’s a woman who says they were friends in 1961. Anna is further baffled with the news that the Woman in Red is on her trail. Unfamiliar faces are emerging at every corner and this time it’s a woman. She says she and Anna were chums back in 1961 and she wants to help her again in her dangerous mission. Heidrun Drei also tells Anna to watch out for the Woman in Red who is after her. But how does Heidrun Drei know so much? Less
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Anna bumps into another person who seems to know her. This time it’s a woman who says they were friends in 1961. Anna is further baffled with the news that the Woman in Red is on her trail. Unfamiliar faces are emerging at every corner and this time it’s a woman. She says she and Anna were chums back in 1961 and she wants to help her again in her dangerous mission. Heidrun Drei also tells Anna to watch out for the Woman in Red who is after her. But how does Heidrun Drei know so much? Less
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Anna bumps into another person who seems to know her. This time it’s a woman who says they were friends in 1961. Anna is further baffled with the news that the Woman in Red is on her trail. Unfamiliar faces are emerging at every corner and this time it’s a woman. She says she and Anna were chums back in 1961 and she wants to help her again in her dangerous mission. Heidrun Drei also tells Anna to watch out for the Woman in Red who is after her. But how does Heidrun Drei know so much? Less
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Anna bumps into another person who seems to know her. This time it’s a woman who says they were friends in 1961. Anna is further baffled with the news that a woman in red is on her trail. Faces unfamiliar to Anna are emerging at every corner. And this time it’s a woman. She says she and Anna were chums back in 1961 and she says she wants to help her again in her dangerous mission. Heidrun Drei also tells Anna to watch out for the woman in red who is after her. But how does Heidrun Drei know so much? Less
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The simple past – also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense – is equivalent in form to the English I did form ( ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a or being inserted into the present tense ending. For instance ich kaufe – I buy becomes ich kaufte – I bought and du kaufst – you buy becomes du kauftest – you bought. The German simple past is mainly used in written German, where it can express most past tenses expressed in English by either the I have done or the I did forms. It also crops up in spoken German, where it is preferred over the perfect tense for the auxiliary verbs (particularly haben and sein ) and the modal verbs ( müssen, sollen, mögen, können, dürfen, wollen ) and also – in Central and Northern Germany – for some other common verbs. To listen to my podcast on your computer, click here. Less
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The simple past – also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense – is equivalent in form to the English I did form ( ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a or being inserted into the present tense ending. For instance ich kaufe – I buy becomes ich kaufte – I bought and du kaufst – you buy becomes du kauftest – you bought. The German simple past is mainly used in written German, where it can express most past tenses expressed in English by either the I have done or the I did forms. It also crops up in spoken German, where it is preferred over the perfect tense for the auxiliary verbs (particularly haben and sein ) and the modal verbs ( müssen, sollen, mögen, können, dürfen, wollen ) and also – in Central and Northern Germany – for some other common verbs. To listen to my podcast on your computer, click here. Less
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The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It’s also the one that’s most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the or the on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are: Ich habe ein Eis gegessen – I have eaten an ice creamIch bin in die Schule gegangen – I’ve gone to school You can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking here. While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones: A description of when to use the different German past tenses: http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm A description of how to use the German perfect tense: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense Exercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm And here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm Less
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The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It’s also the one that’s most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the or the on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are: Ich habe ein Eis gegessen – I have eaten an ice creamIch bin in die Schule gegangen – I’ve gone to school You can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking here. While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones: A description of when to use the different German past tenses: http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm A description of how to use the German perfect tense: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense Exercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm And here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm Less
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The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It’s also the one that’s most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the or the on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are: Ich habe ein Eis gegessen – I have eaten an ice creamIch bin in die Schule gegangen – I’ve gone to school You can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking here. While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones: A description of when to use the different German past tenses: http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm A description of how to use the German perfect tense: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense Exercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm And here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm Less
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The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It’s also the one that’s most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the or the on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are: Ich habe ein Eis gegessen – I have eaten an ice creamIch bin in die Schule gegangen – I’ve gone to school You can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking here. While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones: A description of when to use the different German past tenses: http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm A description of how to use the German perfect tense: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense Exercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm And here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm Less
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