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** Leaving certificate German 2014 **
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Whats the difference between "Es ist" and "Es wird"?
Also, when exactly should you put "zu" before a verb? e.g zu machen
Wird is used in future tense ist is used in present
And for the zu I normally just use it in um-zu conjunctions eg
Ich Lerne Deutsch,um ein job zo bekommen-I learn german in order to/to get a job
I try to stay away from them out of habbit but I think its like this
Zu does not come before the verbs-blieben-segen-horen-gehen-fuhlen-lassen and machen so you wouldnt say zu machen but with anything else its normally a zu like zu speilen, zu gehen.. But theyre annoying so I just dont use them alot
Oh and btw with um..zu , zu does come before machen....Isnt german just too fun :rolleyes: 0 -
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Isitthough? wrote: »Yeah I guess Ive made a small word thingy with the vocab our teacher gives online and added some. It'll do.:o
That would be great, thanks a million
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Isitthough? wrote: »huh? prateritum came up? when?
Angewandte grammatik section
after 1st comprehension 0 -
Angewandte grammatik section after 1st comprehension
Oh we call that Imperfekt no wonder why I was confused. its a form of past tense used for writing not oral so you see it in all your comprehensions. The perfekt is used in oral past tense but we use it in our written (dont ask me why) actually you know what tell me why we cant use imperfekt in our writting someone ty...Anyways it just another past tense and it does come up alot. Anyways look at it this way
Perfekt-Ich Bin nach berling gefahren- I went to berlin
Imperfekt/prateritum-Ich fuhr nach Berlin-I went to berlin
So it causes nothing to go to the end of the sentence etc..whereas the Perfect is auxilary verb(haben/sein) + past participle to the end of the sentence.
forming imperfect
well usually for regular/weak verbs endings are as follows
Ich-te
du-test
er/sie/es-te
wir-ten
ihr-tet
sie/sie-ten
so thats for weak verbs e.g in your one your doing the example says-Ich fuhlte- how did they get that?
well fuhlen is a weak verb and is in the "I" from therefore knock off en and add te giving fuhlte. for Number (6) its in plural cause it ends in Ten and is therefore plural Imperfect.
for strong verbs there is however exception in which you have to learn. If you have Deutsch complete(not sure if thats the name havnt used in ages) but the last 3 pages have massive list of verbs in there perfect and imperfect in which is very handy to know. Strong verbs examples include Ging-Imperfekt of gehen or fuhr imperfekt of fahren.
I know that was a mess but Im so bad at explaining things. But anyways the main thing is it is used in story telling like your comprehensions so you need to know when to spot one. My teacher says to not use it in your writing but tbh I dont know why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb53iLanJx4 I dunno maybe this will explain it better lol0 -
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There's nothing stopping you using the imperfekt in your writing but it's mainly only used in literary and journalistic pieces.
In general in Germany it's used more frequently when speaking in the north where in the south you'd hear the perfekt!
The perfekt is more standard though so I'd stick to that!
Thanks for clearing that up was kinda fuzzy why we weren't able to use it in our writing
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