Learn German: Past Tense from Berlin

www.woltersworld.com while observing the statues of Marx and Engles I thought of the past and thus here is the simple past in German. You have to form it with either haben or sein and then the past particple. You use haben with verbs that transfer action onto something else, for example eating, drinking, hitting, while you use sein for movement as in went, traveled, swam. The participles are made with adding "ge" to the beginning of the verb you are doing in the past and the ending changes. I went to Berlin - Ich bin nach Berlin gefahren. I drank a beer - ich habe ein Bier getrunken.

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[reececup98]

Thank you sooo Much I have a german3 final tomarrow and I have been studying like crazy this has cleared up soo Much for me ...once agian thanks :0

[woltersworld]

@reececup98 I hope it helps and good luck on your exam!

[travisman1994]

Why are marx and Engles memorated? Comunism is a piece of crap.

[woltersworld]

@travisman1994

;)

[JebediahFuselage]

thank you for this man, i've only been learning German for about 2 weeks now, this cleared some stuff up.

[woltersworld]

@JebediahFuselage You are very welcome. I hope my other videos can help too! Viel glueck!!!

[xbeautyandthegeekx]

@travisman1994 That statue in Berlin was built as a historical reminder, not necessarily a tribute to communism. I remember that statue from my trip to Germany :)

[woltersworld]

@Nigel324 I'm glad I can help! Hope the other Learning German videos can help too! Alles Gutes!

[DJCJester]

This is an explanation of the perfect past tense not the simple past tense.

[bobett44]

Can you post another video with the other form of the past tense?