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Mein Schultag: perfect tense, conversation (Edexcel)

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I can categorise vocabulary to aid mastery, use the German perfect tense and take part confidently in a conversation about my school life.

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The perfect tense in German takes a present tense form of the auxiliary verb and a past participle. Weak verb past participles sandwich the stem with 'ge-' and '-t'. Strong verbs use 'ge- and -'en'. Put separable prefixes before the 'ge-', but there is no 'ge-' before inseparable prefixes or '-ieren' verbs. Reflexive pronouns follow the auxiliary in WO1 and the subject in WO2. The German perfect has 2 English translations. Use verb clauses in a conversation response, and extend answers with a different tense, subject, opinions and reasons.

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