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Salzburg, Österreich: imperfect tense, extended writing (Edexcel)

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I can use the imperfect and other tenses to complete exam-style writing tasks on the topics of holidays, people and places.

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Weak verbs form the imperfect tense by adding these endings to the verb stem: -te, -test, -te, -ten, -tet, -ten. Strong verbs have irregular stems in the imperfect tense, with vowel changes and endings: -, st, -, en, t, en. The imperfect tense of ‘sein’, ‘haben’, modal verbs and 'es gab' are commonly used in spoken as well as written German. Use ‘früher’ with a past tense to mean ‘in the past’ or ‘used to’. The BORDER acronym is a useful tool to respond fully and accurately to bullet point writing prompts.

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