Hello again. Today my puppets and I will teach you how to use the irregular verbs in the imperfect tense.
Don't forget to turn on the subtitles and annotations. Let's start.
Ich habe schon gesagt, was ich heute machen werde, aber ich werde es trotzdem nocheinmal sagen.
Hello. Today I will tell a story. This story will include regular and irregular verbs.
I will tell this story three time. First I will tell it in the present tense.
Then in the present perfect tense and the imperfect (narrative past or simple past).
At the end, I will explain the rules. (FYI: There are no subtitles for the story as it is on the screen already.)
You already know how one uses the present tense and the present perfect tense.
You also know how one uses the imperfect tense with regular verbs.
The irregular verbs in the imperfect tense use most of the same endings as they do in the present tense.
"Ich" and "er, sie, es" don't need endings. The other endings are:
du- st; wir- en; ihr- t; sie, Sie- en
The word stems of irregular verbs change also.
There are a few rules for that, but I don't think that they help very much.
One must simply memorize the stem changes.
Now I will conjugate a few irregular verbs. (Again no subtitles as there is no point.)
There are so many different types of stem changes in the imperfect tense, that one must memorize each verb. (Not necessarily, but this is the way I like to teach it.)
I think it helps when one learns three forms together. The infinitive, past participle and the third person singular form in the preterite (imperfect or narrative past).
For example: (Not in the order I just said them, but in the order I meant to say them in the previous sentence. Sometimes I have trouble talking.... :( )
It also helps to say which verbs use "sein" instead of "haben" in the present perfect tense.
Mr. Antrim already has a lot of videos with lists of verbs.
Here are the links to them.
I hope that this video helped you. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe. Until next time. Bye.
Sorry there aren't any bloopers for this video. I didn't mess up as much this time (at least not in ways that would be funny to put at the end here).