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Lesson 1 - Statements, Verben, Conjugations

Lesson 2: Unusual Verbs

Lesson 3: Introduction to Articles and Nouns in German

Lesson 4: Modal Verbs

Lesson 5: Verbs with Prefixes

Lesson 6: Imperativ

Lesson 7: Ja-/Nein-Fragen

Lesson 8: W-Fragen

Lesson 9: der, die, das, die (Review)

Lesson 10: er, sie, es, sie

Lesson 11: ein, eine, ein, -

Lesson 12: kein, keine, kein, keine

Lesson 13: Possessivartikel

Lesson 14: Verbs in the Simple Past Tense

Lesson 15: The Cases in German: Nominativ

Lesson 16: The Cases in German: Akkusativ

Lesson 17: The Cases in German: Dativ

Lesson 18: Personalpronomen and Possessivpronomen in the Three Cases

Lesson 19: Prepositions in the Nominativ and Akkusativ

Lesson 20: Prepositions in the Dativ

Lesson 21: Wechselpräpositionen

Lesson 22: Verbs in Present and Future Tenses

Lesson 23: Verbs in the Perfekt

Lesson 24: The Adjective Endings in the Nominativ

Lesson 25: The Adjective Endings in Akkusativ und Dativ

Episode #23

Lesson 23: Verbs in the Perfekt

23.1 The Two Parts of the Perfekt

The two parts are:
  1. a so-called auxiliary or “helping” verb, of which there are only two, and
  2. the Partizip II, or the past participle, and this is unique to each verb.
The two helping verbs are verbs you know already: sein and haben.

The helping verb is conjugated to match the subject and it is placed, as you know, in Position 2.

Then we place the Partizip II at the end of the sentence. This might seem very odd at first, but you will get used to it. (It is the same sentence structure you used for the separable verbs, the modal verbs, and

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