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4 Some German verbs are very strong willed They do not exactly follow the pattern of weak or regular verbs They change with Du and er/sie/es

5 One of these verbs is lesen (to read) So what happens to the verb lesen in the PRESENT TENSE? Lets find out…

6 Step 1: get rid off the INFINIVE ending: lesen Step 2: add the verb endings for I, you etc. Ichlese

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

8 ihrwir Siesie (you – talking to young people) (we) (they)(you – talking to adults) ten lesen Sieen (you – talking to one adult)

9 lesen les les les les les e (to read) 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) t t t en lies

10 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 liest Meine Freundin Meine Schwester Meine Mutter = sie (she) = ending t Meine Mutter liest Meine Freundin und ich = wir (we) = ending en Meine Freundin und ich lesen Meine Eltern Meine Freunde = sie (they) = ending en e.g. Meine Eltern lesen

11 So what happened to the verb lesen in the PRESENT TENSE? An extra i was added in the stem les with du (liest) and er/sie/es (liest). Also, the normal st ending with du is now just t because the stem les has already got an s.