GERM1023 review
forms of address formal: Sie / Ihnen familiar: du / dir ihr / euch
To find out s.o.’s name s.o.’s age s.o.’s hometown / province / country where s.o. lives s.o.’s major what s.o. likes to do / doesn’t like to do what s.o. finds good / interesting / boring.. Wie heißt du? Wie alt bist du? Woher kommst du? Wo wohnst du? Was studierst du? Was machst du gern / nicht gern? Was findest du gut / interessant / langweilig
(formal)-To find out s.o.’s name s.o.’s age s.o.’s hometown / province / country where s.o. lives s.o.’s major what s.o. likes to do / doesn’t like to do what s.o. finds good / interesting / boring.. Wie heißen Sie? Wie alt sind Sie? Woher kommen Sie? Wo wohnen Sie? Was studieren Sie? Was machen Sie gern / nicht gern? Was finden Sie gut / interessant / langweilig
Find out as much as you can about three people. You have exactly 3 minutes with each person. After a brief greeting ask and answer questions and make notes.
first person
second person
third person
TENSES There are six tenses in English + German present tense: I sing. Ich singe. simple past: I sang. Ich sang. present perfect: I have sung. Ich habe gesungen past perfect: I had sung. Ich hatte gesungen. future I will sing. Ich werde singen. future perfect I will have sung. Ich werde gesungen haben.
TENSES There are six tenses in English + German present tense: I sing. Ich singe. present perfect: I have sung. Ich habe gesungen. auxilliary past participle
to form the present perfect tense in German you need an auxilliary verb HABEN or SEIN the past participle a. regular verbs: ge + stem + (e)t kaufen: gekauft kosten: gekostet b. irregular verbs: ge +[ special form ]+en kommen: gekommen nehmen: genommen
participles regular verbs on –ieren no ge- to dictate diktieren Participle: diktiert studieren studiert
He has studied today. Er hat heute studiert.