Hello again. Today my puppets and I will teach you how to use haben, sein, and the modal verbs in the past tense. Don't forget to turn on the subtitles and annotations. Let's start.
Hello. I like to repeat myself in case you hadn't noticed. Here is another example of that.
Hey. Why didn't you go to the party yesterday?
My mother was mad at me.
I wasn't allowed to go to the party.
I wanted to go, but I didn't listen to her last week.
I should have listened to her, but I didn't do it.
My mother was mad at me. She said that is why I had to stay at home yesterday.
I am grounded now.
I tried to go out inspite of that, but I couldn't climb through the window.
I'm too fat.
My head and shoulders fit, but my butt got stuck.
Tee hee haha ha.
That is so funny.
I have a question.
Really? I thought we were done with your questions.
We were done, but you said something that I didn't understand.
What did I say?
Durfte (was allowed to), konnte (could), mochte (liked), musste (must have), sollte (should have) and wollte (wanted to).
Why didn't you say "dürfen" and so on?
Ah. That's how you say the modal auxiliaries in the past tense.
But why did you use the imperfect tense (written past, preterite) instead of the present perfect tense (spoken past)?
It is easier to say it like that.
For example: I may not go. I wasn't allowed to go. (Present Perfect) I wasn't allowed to go. (Imperfect)
You see? It is simpler.
How do you conjugate the modal auxiliaries in the imperfect tense?
It is easier when you memorize the forms that you use with "ich" and "er, sie, es".
Then you add the endings as you would with the regular verbs in the imperfect tense.
For example: Conjugation on the screen.
The forms that one must memorize are: on the screen.
Ok. Let me try it once.
I wasn't allowed to go to the movies last week, but this week I may.
When you were a child you couldn't ride a bike, but now you can ride without using your hands.
As a child he didn't like asparagus, but now he likes it a lot.
We must have experienced it once, but never again.
Shouldn't you have done the work yesterday?
They wanted to go to the movies, but now they want to swim.
Yes. Exactly.
Then one must add the endings.
And so on.
And why did you say "war" instead of "ist gewesen" in your first sentence?
Shouldn't you use the present perfect tense when you speak?
Yeah. One should, but it is easier to use "war" (was).
The translation of these two is also strange.
If you use "ist gewesen", you can translate it as "has been".
But when one uses "war", you can translate it as "was".
For example: On screen.
Is "haben" also used differently?
Well. I don't use "haben" consitently.
Sometimes I say "hatte" and sometimes I say "habe gehabt".
It depend upon how lazy I am.
If you aren't sure, you should use "war" and "hatte".
One almost never says, "ist gewesen" and "hat gehabt".
Ok. Thanks.
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