Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
The verbs arbeiten ‘to work’, machen ‘to make/do’ and testen ‘to test’ have the following forms: The finite verb in these tenses ...
The simple past forms of gehen and kommen are: NOTE The ich form and the er/sie/es/man forms are simply the changed verb stem wi ...
33.6 Mixed verbs There are a few so-called ‘mixed’ verbs which combine features of the weak and the strong patterns by adding th ...
(b) All modal verbs are irregular (see 35 ). (c) A number of common strong verbs (see 33.5) have a vowel change in the stem of t ...
Other verbs which follow this pattern include: brechen ‘to break’, essen ‘to eat’ (du isst, er isst), gelten ‘to be valid’ (es g ...
Sie hat ihn gefragt. She asked him. When the verb has a transitive sense even though the object is not expressed in the accusati ...
Ich bin ihm begegnet. (See 74.10.) I met him (by chance). but: Ich habe ihn getroffen. (See 74.10.) I met him (by chance or desi ...
Any two verbs sharing the same stem (e.g. kommen and bekommen) follow the same strong or weak pattern. But the use of haben or s ...
Note especially the following common verbs, which do not conform exactly to these patterns and should be learnt individually: (e ...
34 Use of tenses See^81 (pp. 286–96); see also 33.3 (p. 60). 34.1 German has only one form of the verb in each tense, unlike ...
34.4 Future perfect (a) Expresses a completed action envisaged at a point in the future, often with an element of determination ...
Nachdem wir den Tisch abgeräumt haben, spülen wir ab/werden wir abspülen. (See 81.7.) After we have cleared the table we will wa ...
35 Modal verbs 35.1 Modal + infinitive A modal verb is one that combines with another verb to modify the statement: Sie kommt mo ...
A small number of verbs are completed by both an accusative object (see 18 ) and an infinitive. Of these, lassen ‘allow, let’ is ...
35.3 Past participle of modal verbs See 33.1 (p. 59). (a) Note the ‘double infinitive’ pattern. The past participle form of t ...
Ich mag ihn sehr. I like him a lot. Ich habe ihn sehr gemocht. I liked him a lot. Ich will das Geld nicht. I don’t want the mone ...
wollen ‘to intend to/want to’ (see 103 ) dürfen ‘to be allowed/permitted to’ (see 104.2) mögen ‘to like to’ NOTE The use of möge ...
wollen in a question can express an invitation or suggestion: Wollen wir ins Kino gehen? Let’s go to the cinema. See also 60. ...
Er lässt sich nicht beraten. He won’t take advice. Das lässt sich nicht machen. That can’t be done. Ließe sich das machen? Could ...
The structure is as follows: Modal verb (usually in the present tense) + past participle of the main verb (e.g. gewesen, gesagt) ...
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