1. Traveling back to the past Reisen…zurück in die Vergangenheit

2. This is the verb ‘machen.’ it means ‘to do.’

3. Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

4. I – ‘e’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

5. You – ‘st’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

6. he/she – ‘t’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

7. We – ‘en’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

8. y’all – ‘t’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

9. You (formal)/they – ‘en’ suit Like all other verbs ‘machen’ goes to lots of parties, with lots of pronouns, wearing lots of suits…

10. One day machen was hanging around with Sie doing some homework. Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. This evening you (formal) do your homework.

11. And machen wanted to get back to the past… Heute Abend er Hausaufgaben.

12. And machen wanted to get back to the past… GET back to the past… Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. GET

13. And machen wanted to get back to the past… GET back to the past… Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. GET

14. First machen called on his buddy ‘haben’ to hold his place in the sentence in case he needed to come back to the present. Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. GET

15. Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. GET First machen called on his buddy ‘haben’ to hold his place in the sentence in case he needed to come back to the present.

16. Heute Abend Sie Hausaufgaben. GET GET back to the past (ge-verb-t)

17. GET GET back to the past (ge-verb-t) Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben.

18. GET back to the past (ge-verb-t) Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben.

19. Then machen (or now gemacht) went as far back as he could go… Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben.

20. Then machen (or now gemacht) went as far back as he could go… Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben gemacht. …all the way to the end of the sentence.

21. Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben gemacht. This evening you (formal) did homework.

22. Heute Abend haben Sie Hausaufgaben gemacht. This evening you (formal) did homework. The steps: 1. Have your helping verb (haben or sein) take your verbs place. 2. GET your verb: ge-verb-t your verb: put a ge-t around your verb. 3. Move your geverbt verb to end of the sentence. 4. You’ve got it! Now speak of thing from long ago!

23. Well, there are some exceptions… …we will talk about them later.

24. Stem changing verbs… …for example. When then stem of the stem changing verb is regular (like aufmachen-to open) they are very similar… Ich mache die Tür auf.

25. Stem changing verbs… First, haben replaces the conjugated verb. Ich mache die Tür auf.habe mache

26. Stem changing verbs… Second, you GET the verb (geverbt the verb, put a ‘ge-t’ around the verb) Ich mache die Tür auf.habe gemacht

27. Stem changing verbs… Third, the geverbt verb goes to the end. Ich mache die Tür auf.habe gemacht

28. Stem changing verbs… AND THEN!!!!! The geverbt verb RECONNECTS to the prefix! Ich mache die Tür aufhabegemacht.

29. Stem changing verbs… Now you have the past tense for stem changing verbs. Ich mache die Tür aufhabegemacht.

30. Stem changing verbs… Now you have the past tense for stem changing verbs. Ich mache die Tür aufhabegemacht.