Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses

✍ Scribed by Astrid Henschel

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Series: Practice Makes Perfect Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in German

If you are looking for help memorizing German verb conjugations, then any German verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent in German, you'll need to learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses comes in.

The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate German-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in choosing the right word.

Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses lets you:

• Learn when and why to use different verb tenses
• Reinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topics
• Build your verb skills using more than 100 engaging exercises

With numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to speak and write in German fluently in no time at all.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 8
Basic Terminology......Page 9
Part I: The Present Tense......Page 11
Usage of the Present Tense......Page 13
Formation of the Present Tense......Page 17
Unit 2 The Present Tense of haben, sein, and werden......Page 29
Verbs with Stem-Vowel Changes from a to ä and au to äu......Page 33
Verbs with a Stem-Vowel Change from e to i or to ie......Page 35
Inseparable Prefixes......Page 40
Separable Prefixes......Page 42
Prefixes That Can Be Separable or Inseparable......Page 47
Conjugation of the Modal Auxiliaries......Page 51
Modals Used with Infinitives......Page 52
Modal Position in a Subordinate Clause......Page 54
Omission of the Infinitive......Page 55
Conjugation of wissen......Page 59
Meanings of wissen and kennen......Page 60
Unit 7 legen/liegen and stellen/stehen......Page 62
Formal Commands......Page 64
Familiar Commands......Page 65
The Command Forms of sein and werden......Page 68
Impersonal Sensory Verbs......Page 71
es gibt or es ist, es sind......Page 73
Unit 10 Review Exercises in the Present Tense......Page 76
Part II: The Future and Past Tenses, lassen, Reflexive Verbs, and Infinitives......Page 81
Adverbs of Time......Page 83
Position and Form of Modals......Page 85
Expressing Probability......Page 87
Weak Verbs......Page 90
Strong Verbs......Page 93
Mixed Verbs......Page 99
haben, sein, and werden......Page 101
Modal Auxiliaries......Page 104
Formation of the Present Perfect Tense......Page 113
Present Perfect Tense of Weak Verbs......Page 114
haben or sein as the Auxiliary Verb in Perfect Tenses......Page 117
Present Perfect Tense of Strong Verbs......Page 121
Present Perfect Tense of Mixed Verbs......Page 127
Present Perfect Tense with Separable Prefixes......Page 129
Present Perfect Tense with Inseparable Prefixes......Page 131
Present Perfect Tense with Verbs Ending in -ieren......Page 134
Subordinate Clauses and the Present Perfect Tense......Page 137
Unit 14 The Past Perfect Tense......Page 140
Unit 15 The Future Perfect Tense......Page 144
Unit 16 lassen......Page 148
Unit 17 Reflexive Verbs......Page 151
Reflexive Verbs with Dative Pronouns......Page 152
“Each Other”......Page 155
Perfect Tenses of Reflexive Verbs......Page 156
Infinitives Without zu......Page 158
Infinitives with zu......Page 164
Unit 19 Review Exercises in the Future and Past Tenses, lassen, Reflexive Verbs, and Infinitives......Page 171
Part III: The Passive Voice, Subjunctive Mood, and Conditional Tense......Page 181
Active Voice Versus Passive Voice......Page 183
von or durch......Page 184
Impersonal Passive Constructions......Page 186
sein and the Passive Voice......Page 187
Substitutes for the Passive Voice......Page 188
Use and Formation of the Subjunctive I......Page 194
Use and Formation of the Subjunctive II......Page 201
The würde Construction......Page 207
Conditions of Fact......Page 211
Unreal Conditions......Page 212
Speculation About the Past......Page 214
Omitting wenn......Page 215
Unit 24 Review Exercises in the Passive Voice, Subjunctive Mood, and Conditional Tense......Page 217
Appendix A: Verb Summary......Page 225
Appendix B: Principal Parts of Verbs......Page 235
Appendix C: Verbs with Prepositions......Page 238
Answer Key......Page 240