Fairy tales: diminutives, singular imperfect tense
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I can use strong and weak verbs in the imperfect tense for storytelling.
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Add suffix -chen or -lein to create diminutive nouns with the English equivalent meaning ‘little’.
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.
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