How to use & build Präteritum | German Simple Past Explained
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0:00 When talking about the past in German, you have these three options, which is the present perfect tense,
0:11 which is the simple past, which is the past perfect tense. The first one, perfect, is the one you
0:22 probably already learned in A1, is also the most important and most common one. That's perfect. And in A2 you learn
0:30 about premium which is also important. And in B1 you learn about perfect which is actually not that common used. In
0:40 this video we will focus just on preerum the simple past. You will learn how to build it for regular and irregular
0:48 verbs. how to recognize preitum, example sentences, and lots of tips and tricks during this video to help you to
0:56 understand this German tense better. And in case we haven't met yet, hello. You're watching your German teacher. And
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1:21 help you on your German journey. You will find the link down in the description. All right,
1:28 and me talking about fakang and height in general, we have mostly like these two options just mentioned before. does
1:36 perfect present perfect tense which is and the second one is the simple past.
1:51 Now important to understand is that the present perfect tense does perfect is mainly used for speaking. So whenever
1:59 you talk to somebody in German talking about the past, you most probably will use this perfect and premium is used for
2:09 writing in written German. So you will see it in newspapers, in reports or in books. But there are some words in
2:18 preitum which we also use in spoken German. The most important ones which are also the most important ones in
2:26 general for German are to be and to have. Here the conjugation inv.
2:46 And there are also six model verbs which we also use in preerum in spoken German molen
2:58 volen. We don't go into detail to all of those because we already have two videos. One aboutum
3:05 for sil and haren and one about the six model verbs in preterum. You will find the links down in the description. But
3:13 in this lesson, we will talk mainly about other important German verbs which we also sometimes use in spoken German
3:21 in preterm. And of course, as you know, in German, we have regular and irregular verbs. And
3:30 we start with the regular ones. The conjugat verb conjugation for regular verbs.
3:39 We take the verb cen to buy a simple easy regular verb. We start with the present tense conjugation
3:51 and so on. Now we add does perfect the present perfect tense [Music]
4:01 and so on. And now we add Zen. Now, why did I put these three tenses
4:19 together? Let's just look at the verb stem. Then, this is this calf. Calf. So, you drop the en ending and then you have
4:29 the verb stem. When you look closely, you will see that you have this calf in all three tenses in present, imperfect,
4:38 impre. The only thing you have to do is you add the endings. So for present tense, e t
4:47 and so on. Perfect. You have this g e for the past participle particip. And then this t at the end, which is also a
4:55 sign mostly for regular verbs. and preerum this te e t s t te t te t te t te t te t te t te t te t te t te t e and
5:01 so on. Now let's just compare present and preitum and as you can see they are very similar right this is for regular
5:10 verbs always like this. So the only thing which is actually changing is this t there is a t after the verb stem cal
5:20 then a t and then the endings. So very close to this present tense conjugation. But this T is a big sign
5:30 for whenever you see this in a verb conjugation, you know, okay, this must be prearum.
5:37 Another important thing, a tip here, the first and third person singular and plural,
5:46 the conjugation of for any verb, it doesn't matter if it's regular or irregular, any verb. The first person
5:54 and the third person, singular and plural, they have always the same conjugation.
6:01 Let's look at some other regular verbs here. We take m to make to do, to ask, and zen to say. Those are all
6:11 regular verbs. And when we just look at the verb stem, then you can see that this is the same for all. So you have
6:18 this verb stem and then you add the preerum endings for regular verbs as you can see here. But of course it wouldn't
6:27 be German if there wouldn't be some special cases and mit or verbs with a d or d at the
6:36 end at the end of the verb stem from verb they get an additional eon to work
6:47 to wait or to talk or say. And as you can see, abeton and vatin, they both have a t at the end of the verb stem and
6:58 raiden has a d at the end of the verb stem. Now we add the preerum conjugation and you can see there is this additional
7:07 e after the verb stem and between so between the verb stem and the endings the preterum endings. This is there for
7:17 pronunciation reason. So let's check let's take the first one for first person singular
7:24 in present. If you wouldn't have this e there it would be
7:32 which is kind of impossible to pronounce. So this is just there. This e is just there for pronunciation reasons.
7:40 Another important tip do so the second person singular and the second person plural are not important
7:51 at all in prearum. So you kind of not kind of forget about it but you can't kind of neglect it.
8:00 Why? Because whenever you use the second person singular or plural this means you're talking to somebody directly. And
8:09 whenever we talk to somebody directly about something that happened in the past, we would never use
8:19 this sentence here. Imperfect. Did you buy yesterday the new cell phone?
8:30 This would be Absolutely perfect. The grammatically it's correct.
8:42 Both sentences are correct and both have the same exactly the same meaning. But we would never use so for spoken German
8:56 imperfect is perfect and we would not use this is just something you have to keep
9:03 in mind. So again, second person singular and plural for spoken German. We almost never use
9:12 an example. Tom likes to cook. Yesterday Tom bought a cookbook. Cooked
9:37 spaghetti with mushrooms and waited for his wife. All the verbs here in yellow are regular verbs. All of them are in
9:50 His wife didn't ask why because she was working late and was very tired. Again,
10:08 three verbs all in yellow. is is actually irregular verb is all right
10:22 is done. Let's go to irregular verbs and we start again with the conjugation. We take the verb bring to bring in present
10:34 looks like this which looks very regular right and this is something you also have to keep in
10:45 mind. If you just look at the verb conjugation for present for present tense you can actually not tell if this
10:52 verb is regular or irregular. There's quite a few of German verbs which are irregular but they are regular in
11:00 present tense conjugation. So the only way to 100 100% be sure to know if it's a regular or a irregular verb is when
11:10 you look at the form. But first we also add perfect and so on. here for the past participle.
11:24 You already see this is not regular. Now let's add also the prearum. 100% this is not regular because the
11:44 verb stem this bring is actually not in the preerum form. So this is the sign. Okay, this is a 100% irregular verb. Now
11:54 here again I added all three tenses. Why? Because here you see some similarities between perfect the past
12:02 participle and the form. And this is something which you also see in other verbs. For example,
12:14 to think to know and all of those three verbs are actually also kind of used, not common
12:21 but used in preum in spoken German. Now we add the past participle for those two which is foren
12:32 for ven. And now let's add the conjugation which looks like this. is.
12:56 And as you can see when we just look at this past participle there, you see those similarities between the past
13:04 participle particip and the conjugation. And why do I tell this? Why? Because the past participle you most probably know
13:15 already. So this is just something to help you because the past participle you should have already learned before and
13:24 whenever you form the preerum, this might help you to form it because you already know the past participle.
13:32 But of course it wouldn't be German. Unfortunately, this is not a rule. Irregular verbs always always have
13:40 exceptions to give in present. At least this one is here is already
13:56 irregular in present tense. escaped and this is also very common for irregular verbs in present tense if they
14:04 are irregular in present tense is mostly mostly the second and third person singular form
14:12 let's add perfect and so on and now let's add the carp
14:24 var zon and as you can See this past participle
14:31 here and there's nothing really much they have in common. And this is also for some other
14:40 important verbs. [Music] to find
15:00 to go. [Music] Just to show you again, let's add the
15:10 past participle. For gibbon it's for common it's common and there is not much they have in
15:21 common with the preerum form but there is one thing which they do have in common and this is this vowel change
15:32 vowel change vocal vexel so you see this gibbon for example there's this gib and you have this e in preito make it get a
15:39 a an a sharp common is a oarum is also a R a fendon is a I also a vowel premium it's another vowel it's also a so this a
15:52 is quite common used in prearum again another side tip if you see something in the verb conjugation and you have this a
16:01 there might be prearum for gen this one here you don't have it you don't have this r you have a i but
16:08 you still have this vowel change. I know this is not really helping, right? This vowel change, it's just something I
16:16 wanted to point out. But the only thing which is important when it comes to irregular verbs, learn the irregular
16:24 verbs by heart. You have to learn them by heart. Write your own list with irregular verbs. Write them down in
16:32 present tense and past tense. So the first row is this present, the present tense conjugation. Then the second row
16:40 is the perfect the present perfect tense. So we have the past participle and the third row is the form in preum.
16:49 Try to do this for all the irregular verbs. There's not too many. So whenever you come across a new irregular verb try
16:57 to add it accordingly to this list and learn this list by heart. Let's do an example also for
17:06 and again we have Tom which just cooked spaghetti spaghetti
17:17 shrimp spaghetti. Tom thought the spaghetti were so
17:24 delicious that he wrote down the recipe. Here we have Findenar is fun and we have alen
17:34 to write down impre is a verb a separable verb and here just to point out another thing about
17:44 separable verbs in prearum they exactly work the same way but here we have a a subordinate clause right so
17:56 And in a nezat separable verbs are not separated. They are just put together to with the prefix first a and then the
18:05 conjugation here in Maria. Maria brought the dishes into the
18:28 kitchen. gave the cat fresh water and went to bed because she was tired. Here as well in yellow, all three verbs are
18:38 irregular verbs all in premium form. And in this video, there is no bonus tip because I think I gave you already quite
18:47 a lot of tips during this video, but you have how's homework. The question is very simple.
18:59 What did you do yesterday? Now to answer this question in the comments, write everything the complete answer in.
19:09 You have to write the answer in film. Yesterday I went to the movies and watched a a a movie which is pretty
19:23 obvious. So zah maybe this z is preerum from zen and maybe you don't know this maybe you don't know the conjugation of
19:31 zen in prearum just go to google type inum and then the verb here for example zen
19:41 and then you will have the conjugation in prearum on the first page just as a small side tip and if you want to know
19:49 more about perfect the present perfect tense can watch this video here or then you can watch this video here.
20:00 I hope you learned something. Al vin.