Hello again. Today my puppets and I will teach you how to use the imperfect tense (narrative past/simple past) with regular verbs. Don't forget to turn on the subtitles and annotations. Let's start.
Hallo noch einmal. Heute werden meine Puppen und ich euch beibringen, wie man das Imperfekt mit regelmäßigen Verben verwendet. Vergesst nicht die Untertitel und Anmerkungen anzumachen. Los geht’s.
It's on the screen.
Still on the screen.
Still there.
I think something isn't working correctly in your motor.
What?
Why are you making such weird noises?
I am practicing the endings in the imperfect tense.
The preterite?
Yes. Sometimes people call it the simple past tense.
because it has only one verb instead of "haben" or "sein" and another verb as with the present perfect tense.
That is the past tense that you use in stories.
Yes exactly. One uses the present perfect tense when one speaks. One uses the imperfect tense when one writes.
Yeah, but this rule isn't concrete.
Sometimes one uses the imperfect tense even when one is talking.
That is correct, but I'm only talking about regular verbs today.
How will you do that?
I will read a story.
With the help of this story, one can understand the rules.
Ok. Read.
There are no subtitles for the story as the story is on the screen.
And now back to the subtitles.
That was a very beautiful story, but you only used a few forms of the imperfect tense.
It is a little difficult to use them all in one story.
Ok, but how does one make this form of the past tense?
It is quite simple. Take away the -en at the end of the verb. Then conjugate the verb with the endings:
For example: besuchen- to visit
If one would use an "e" between the verbstem and the ending in the present tense, one uses an "e" in the imperfect tense.
For example: arbeiten- to work
Say that three times fast.
Yeah. You are correct. Sometimes it sounds a bit strange, but one must get used to it.
Thanks. That was very helpful.
I hope that you know by now I say the same thing at the end of each video. I hope you also realize that I'm not still sick, but I recorded this video at the same time I recorded last weeks video and I was sick then so I sound the same. It is weird how that works out, right?
Hey. It's English!
I think this guy is insane. He is almost as bad as Mr. Antrim. Wow. What a weirdo.