Weak pushover verbs..... lieben kaufen spielen suchen....are verbs that do exactly as they are told. They stick to a regular pattern that does not change!

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2 Weak pushover verbs..... lieben kaufen spielen suchen....are verbs that do exactly as they are told. They stick to a regular pattern that does not change! wohnen leben kochen

3 A verb is a ‘doing word’ like ‘to play’ A verb you look up in the dictionary has an ‘en’ or ‘n’ ending and is called an ‘infinitive’, e.g. ‘spielen’

4 But how do I use this verb in the PRESENT TENSE (describing what I am doing now or what I usually do)? Simple! Just follow the 2 steps on the next slide!!!!

5 Step 1: get rid off the INFINIVE ending: spielen Step 2: add the verb endings for ‘I’, ‘you’ etc. Ichspiele

6 Ichdu ersiees (I) (you – talking to a young person) (he)(she)(it) est ttt spielen

7 wir sie (we) (they) en spielen Sieen (you – talking to an adult) ihr (you – talking to a group of people you know well) t

8 spielen spiel spiel spiel spiel spiel spiel spiel e (to play) en Ich (I) du (you-talking to a young person) er/sie/es (he/she/it) ihr (you- talking to young people) wir (we) sie (they) Sie (you-talking to a stranger/strangers) st t t en

9 Fine, but what if I want to talk about my friend or my sister? No problem. Have a look at this: Mein Freund Mein Bruder Mein Vater = er (he) = ending ‘t’ Mein Bruder spielt Meine Freundin Meine Schwester Meine Mutter = sie (she) = ending ‘t’ Meine Mutter spielt Meine Freundin und ich = wir (we) = ending ‘en’ Meine Freundin und ich spielen Meine Eltern Meine Freunde = sie (they) = ending ‘en’ e.g. Meine Eltern spielen