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You use the Perfect Tense to talk about things that happened in the PAST
The Perfect Tense is made up of 2 parts Most verbs take the conjugated form of haben (to have) + Past Participle – the bit at the END of the sentence!!!!
How do you form this Past Participle? Take the infinitive, e.g. Take away the en ending Insert ge and t Thats it for REGULAR VERBS! EASY!! putzen putz geputzt
Regular verbs using haben Ichhabeden Rasengemäht Ichhabe mit den Kindern gespielt Ichhabe die Einkaufswagen geholt Ichhabedie Regaleaufgefüllt Ichhabedie Tischeabgeräumt Ichhabedas Essenvorbereitet Ichhabedie Kundenbedient
Have you noticed….? There were two exceptions to the rule: there are some verbs, e.g. bedienen, vorbereiten etc. that end in t but do not have the ge at the front. Why? It doesnt sound right!! Separable verbs are also slightly different. They have the ge bit sandwiched between the prefix, e.g. auf and the main part of the verb, e.g. füllt aufgefüllt
Irregular verbs using haben Ichhabe die Blumen ge g o ss en Ichhabe beim Einpacken geh o lfen Ichhabean der Kasse ges e ssen IchhabeBestellungen aufgeschr ie ben IchhabeGeschichtenvorgelesen Ichhabe die Kinder ins Bett gebr a cht
Have you noticed….? Most Participles start with ge and end in en This is often the case with IRREGULAR VERBS or STRONG verbs. Some verbs also have a stem change likegegossen, geholfen, gesessen,geschrieben or gebracht. And of course you have the separable verbs again where the ge is sandwiched between the prefix and the main part of the verb, like vorgelesen or aufgeschrieben.
Some verbs like gehen totally do their own thing and have the conjugated form of sein (to be) + PAST PARTICIPLE
Irregular verbs using sein Ichbineinkaufen gegangen
Verbs that take sein instead of haben are usually verbs that express movement, e.g. going or travelling somewhere