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Personal Pronouns & Verb Conjugation - Present Tense

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Aishwarya Pankaj Degaonkar
11/01/2021 0 0

Most verbs in German end with ‘en’ and a verb infinitive form is just 1 word, for example, to learn, the verb infinite form in English comprises of 2 words ‘to’ & ‘learn’; in German, its ‘lernen’.

 

Singular – English

German

Plural – English

German

first person

I

ich

we

wir

second person – informal

you

du

you (all)

ihr

third person

he, she, it

er, sie es

they

sie

second person – formal

you

Sie

you

Sie

The German verb infinite form is just 1 word, yet it has 2 elements in it – the ‘Stamm’ & ‘Endung’
for example, ‘lernen’ (to learn) is made of ‘lern’ + ‘en’

When we conjugate a German verb, we get rid of the original ‘Endung’ & replace it
with other ‘Endungen’ that represents a particular subject – a personal pronoun

Let’s see how it works:

Personal pronoun

VC English

Personal pronoun

VC German

‘Endung’

I

learn

ich

lerne

e

you

learn

du

lernst

st

he/she/it

learns

er/es/sie

lernt

t

we

learn

wir

lernen

en

you all

learn

ihr

lernt

t

you

learn

sie

lernen

en

you

learn

Sie

lernen

en

So, a sentence in English ‘I learn German’ is ‘Ich lerne Deutsch’.

The German language only has the ‘Präsens’ – present tense, no separate ‘simple present’ or ‘present continuous’ like English, hence the verb position is fixed, but one may change the position of the subject and the object.

Ich lerne Deutsch. = Deutsch lerne ich.

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