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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 tragen (to wear) So what happens to the verb tragen in the PRESENT TENSE? Lets find out…

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

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

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

9 tragen trag trag trag trag trag e (to wear) 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 träg

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

11 So what happened to the verb tragen in the PRESENT TENSE? The vowel a in the stem of trag was replaced by ä with du (trägst) and er/sie/es (trägt).