Grammar
Let’s complete all verb forms in our list of regular verbs:
I
you
he, she, it
we
you (plural)
they / you (formal)
kommen
ich komme
du kommst
er, sie, es kommt
wir kommen
ihr kommt
sie/Sie kommen
I
you
he, she, it
we
you (plural)
they / you (formal)
wohnen
ich wohne
du wohnst
er, sie, es wohnt
wir wohnen
ihr wohnt
sie/Sie wohnen
I
you
he, she, it
we
you (plural)
they / you (formal)
arbeiten
ich arbeite
du arbeitest
er, sie, es arbeitet
wir arbeiten
ihr arbeitet
sie/Sie arbeiten
Apart from avoiding the double t and the strange ‚tst‘-ending by adding an extra e in arbeitet and arbeitest, we can see a general pattern with regular verbs:
Remember: At the moment you’re still riding with training wheels. That means, in our writing exercises it is currently no problem if you forget a punctuation mark (,.!?) or disregard upper and lower case. But that will change soon! In the future, all nouns and sentence beginnings must be written in upper case and the rest in lower case.
2 Correct the mistakes
Correct the verb if it’s wrong. If it’s not wrong, write ” – ” like in the example below.
If you can’t write ä, ö, ü, and ß then replace them with ae, oe, ue, and ss.
Watch and repeat
Have you ever wondered how to pronounce these letters with two dots on top of them? Ä, Ö, and Ü are all closely linked to their ‚normal‘ versions A, O, and U.
Ä: Take the normal A, and move your jaw half an inch forward
Ö: Now take the O, move your jaw half an inch forward, and make a slightly upward angled fish mouth
Ü: And lastly, say the U, move your jaw half an inch forward, and make a slightly upward angled fish mouth
6 Responses
“sie” was marked as incorrect when I answered for the form “er/sie/es” eg sie macht & sie sagt. I may be missing something but these look correct – should they be “sie machen”, in which case should that not be “Sie” rather than “sie”?
I’m the learner here so I know that I might be completely misunderstanding something!
So you marked “sie machen” and “sie sagen” as a mistake and corrected it, am I understanding correctly? If that’s the case then your answer is wrong because “sie machen” and “sie sagen” are already correct and don’t need to be changed.
Hi, for 2,6,and 10, how can we tell if the “sie” is supposed to mean “she” or “they”? This would affect the verb ending, would it not? Thanks. 🙂
Hi, that’s right. The way to tell is recognizing the verb endings. See the grammar above: sie (she) macht / sie (they) machen.
Hi, I am a bit confused. i corrected the ‘sie’ cause i assumed it is referred to as she but the answer said sie as in they. in this case how do we differentiate the sie between she and they?
Hi! Take a look at the grammar above: for “arbeiten”, for example, it’s sie (she) arbeitet BUT sie (they) arbeiten.