Der Rattenfänger: understanding a Grimm brothers' fairy tale, imperfect tense
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I can understand a Grimms brothers' fairy tale and respond to it using perfect and present tenses.
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Use the imperfect tense in German to narrate past events, mainly in writing.
Singular weak imperfect verbs add -te to the stem for ‘ich’ and ‘er, sie, es’ and an additional -st for the ‘du’ form.
Strong verbs have an irregular stem including a vowel change, and don’t add -te; ‘du’ forms add -st to the stem.
Oral retelling of fairy tales can be done in the perfect tense; simpler versions can be written in the present tense.
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