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© Heidi Behrens
© Heidi Behrens
You use the Perfect Tense to
talk about things that
happened in the PAST
The Perfect Tense is made
up of 2 parts
Most verbs take the
conjugated form of ‘haben’
(to have) + Past Participle
– the bit at the END
of the sentence!!!!
How do you form this ‘Past
Participle?
• Take the infinitive, e.g.
putzen
• Take away the ‘en’ ending
putz
• Insert ‘ge’ and ‘t’
geputzt
• That’s it for REGULAR VERBS! EASY!!
Regular verbs using ‘haben’
Ich
habe
den Rasen
gemäht
Ich
habe
mit den Kindern
gespielt
Ich
habe
die Einkaufswagen
geholt
Ich
habe
die Regale
aufgefüllt
Ich
habe
die Tische
abgeräumt
Ich
habe
das Essen
vorbereitet
Ich
habe
die Kunden
bedient
Have you noticed….?
• There were two exceptions to the rule:
there are some verbs, e.g. bedienen,
vorbereiten etc. that end in ‘t’ but do not have
the ‘ge’ at the front. Why? It doesn’t sound
right!!
• Separable verbs are also slightly different.
They have the ‘ge’ bit sandwiched between the
prefix, e.g. ‘auf’ and the main part of the verb,
e.g. ‘füllt’  ‘aufgefüllt’
Irregular verbs using ‘haben’
Ich
habe
die Blumen
gegossen
Ich
habe
beim Einpacken
geholfen
Ich
habe
an der Kasse
gesessen
Ich
habe
Bestellungen
aufgeschrieben
Ich
habe
Geschichten
vorgelesen
Ich
habe
die Kinder ins Bett
gebracht
Have you noticed….?
• Most Participles start with ‘ge’ and end in ‘en’
• This is often the case with IRREGULAR VERBS or
STRONG verbs.
• Some verbs also have a ‘stem’ change like ‘gegossen’,
‘geholfen’, ‘gesessen’,
‘geschrieben’ or ‘gebracht’.
• And of course you have the separable verbs again
where the ‘ge’ is sandwiched between the prefix and
the main part of the verb, like ‘vorgelesen’ or
‘aufgeschrieben’.
Some verbs like ‘gehen’ totally
do their own thing and have the
conjugated form of ‘sein’ (to be)
+ PAST PARTICIPLE
Irregular verbs using ‘sein’
Ich
bin
einkaufen
gegangen
• Verbs that take ‘sein’ instead of ‘haben’
are usually verbs that express
movement, e.g. going or travelling
somewhere