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© Heidi Behrens

2 Strong Verbs in the Present Tense

3 Some German verbs are very strong willed
They do not exactly follow the pattern of weak or regular verbs They change with ‘Du’ and ‘er/sie/es’

4 One of these verbs are ‘sehen’ (to see) and ‘lesen’ (to read)
So what happens to the verbs ‘sehen’ and ‘lesen’ in the PRESENT TENSE? Let’s find out…

5 Step 1: get rid off the INFINIVE ending:
seh en en en en Step 2: add the verb endings for ‘I’, ‘you’ etc. Ich seh e

6 seh en Ich e du st er t sie t es t (you – talking to a young person)
(she) (it)

7 ihr t wir en Sie en Sie en sie en
seh en ihr t wir en (you – talking to young people) (we) Sie en Sie en sie en (you – talking to one adult) (you – talking to adults) (they)

8 seh en en (to see) Ich (I) du (you-talking to a young person) er/sie/es (he/she/it) ihr(you- talking to young people) wir (we) sie (they) Sie (you-talking to a stranger/strangers) seh seh seh seh seh e sieh st sieh t t en en en

9 = er (he) = = sie (she)= = wir (we)=
Fine, but what if I want to talk about my friend or my sister? No problem. Have a look at this: Mein Freund Mein Bruder Mein Vater ending ‘t’ Mein Bruder sieht = er (he) = Meine Freundin Meine Schwester Meine Mutter ending ‘t’ Meine Mutter sieht = sie (she)= Meine Freundin und ich ending ‘en’ Meine Freundin und ich sehen = wir (we)= Meine Eltern Meine Freunde = sie (they)= ending ‘en’ e.g. Meine Eltern sehen

10 les en en (to read) Ich (I) du (you-talking to a young person) er/sie/es (he/she/it) ihr(you- talking to young people) wir (we) sie (they) Sie (you-talking to a stranger/strangers) les les les les les e lies t lies t t en en en

11 So what happened to the verbs ‘sehen’ and ‘lesen’ in the PRESENT TENSE?
An extra ‘i’ was added to the stems ‘les’ and ‘seh’ with ‘du’ (liest/siehst) and ‘er/sie/es’ (liest/sieht). Also, the normal ‘st’ ending for ‘du’ with ‘lesen’ is now just ‘t’ because the stem ‘les’ has already got an ‘s’.


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