Intermediate german

Unit 13: The past perfect tense 101
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Exercise 13.4
Translate the sentences below into German, using the past perfect tense.
1 We hadn’t seen each other for 10 years.
2 Before that I had lived in Hamburg.
3 Before that he had been a doctor.
4 She couldn’t come because she had missed the train.
5 I didn’t know that you had been to Austria. (Use the du form.)
6 He wanted to read the book after he had seen the film.
7 They spoke better Spanish after they had lived in Madrid.
8 After she had washed the car she drove into town.
Checklist
1 When is the past perfect tense used?
2 How do you form the past perfect?
3 Which conjunction often introduces a subordinate clause
in the past perfect tense?
4 How can the past perfect tense often be substituted?
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