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The 100 most common German verbs - past participle and
simple past
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German verbs are generally categorized as weak, strong and mixed/irregular, depending on whether
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the stem form of the word changes in di erent tenses.
1) Weak verbs do not change their stem vowels in any tense.
The past participle ends in -t (while many PP forms start with "ge-" like "gearbeitet", several
exceptions like "erklärt" exist)
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2) Strong verbs change their form in one or more tenses.
The past participle ends in -en.
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3) Mixed verbs display elements of strong and weak verbs. Modal verbs indicated by *.
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October 28, 2016
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Salomee_e Very nice, just a few tiny mistakes:
(an)bieten simple past bot (an) Nehmen simple past nahm
October 28, 2016
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Good catch! Thanks
October 28, 2016
jonathanim15
i think setzen means to sit. you have written 'to set' or am i wrong?
November 2, 2016
mizinamo PLUS MOD
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You are indeed wrong.
setzen = to set (something somewhere), to seat (someone)
sitzen = to sit, to be sitting
With the vowels pretty much as in English, as it turns out :)
There is also the re flexive sich setzen - literally "to seat oneself" - which means "to sit
down".
November 2, 2016
billkamm 1635
mizinamo this isn't quite correct.
sitzen means "to be sitting". ich sitze = I am sitting (as in you are currently seated)
sich setzen means "to sit down". ich setze mich = I am sitting down or setzen Sie sich
bitte = please sit down (formal)
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free. or something into a seated
position. z. B. ich setze die Puppe auf dem Stuhl neben mir.
November 17, 2016
mizinamo PLUS MOD
64
I don't think anything I wrote was wrong, though it was perhaps incomplete
to leave out sich setzen. I've added that now.
November 17, 2016
Salomee_e
*Ich setze die Puppe auf de n Stuhl neben mir. Die Puppe sitzt auf dem Stuhl neben
mir.
November 17, 2016
billkamm 1635
Thanks Salomee_e that grammar rule gets me every now and then lol.
November 17, 2016
biertopf
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Maybe you confuse it with the re exive "sich setzen" = "to sit down"?
November 2, 2016
SuperGirlyGamer3
oh my gosh u have alot of daily streaks
November 11, 2016
alonsaky
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October 29, 2016
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