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A. Damals<br />
haben gefeiert<br />
Aktivität 27. Auf der Party<br />
What exactly did Berna, Eva and Jan do on their birthdays? Watch Eva and<br />
Jan’s clips „Mein Geburtstag“ and Berna’s clip „Mein Lieblingsfeiertag“ and<br />
write down all the verbs they used to tell their stories.<br />
(QR 5.27 p.247) (QR 5.14<br />
p.247)<br />
sind gekommen<br />
B. Später<br />
Now listen to the part in Eva’s video in which she talks about how she was going to celebrate her<br />
birthday. Write down all the verbs Eva uses to tell her story.<br />
C. Der Unterschied<br />
What did you notice about the formation of the verbs to talk about the past, on one hand, and to talk<br />
about the future, on the other?<br />
To talk about the past, you ...<br />
To talk about the present, you ...<br />
COERLL - Germanic Studies - First Year German<br />
war<br />
To talk about the future, you ...<br />
Kapitel 5<br />
Grimm Grammar<br />
At home please read<br />
the following grammar<br />
point on the Grimm<br />
Grammar website.<br />
conversational past: mixed<br />
verbs<br />
a small group of verbs take<br />
the ge- prefix in the conversational<br />
past, but also<br />
have vowel changes (like<br />
strong verbs):<br />
bringen → gebracht<br />
denken → gedacht<br />
kennen → gekannt<br />
nennen → genannt<br />
wissen → gewusst<br />
conversational past: -ieren<br />
verbs<br />
In the conversational past,<br />
verbs with -ieren take only<br />
the suffix -t, but not the ge-<br />
prefix: studiert, informiert.<br />
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