Transcript Stem-changing verbs

Stem-changing verbs
Present tense
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Irregular verbs
• What irregular verbs to do you know?
• What makes them irregular?
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Some definitions
• What is a verb stem?
• What is a vowel?
• What is a stem vowel?
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Some verb change their stem
vowels
• this happens in the du, er, sie, es forms only
• the only vowels that change their stems are
e and a.
• e can change to ie or i
• a can change to ä
• the verbs that do this must be memorized
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Verbs changing from e to i
essen
geben
sprechen
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Verbs changing from e to ie
sehen
lesen
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Verbs changing from a to ä
fahren
schlafen
laufen
lassen
gefallen
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