Today I want to practice a little conjugation with you. As you can imagine, there are a lots of different time forms concerning conjugation. For example future, past, subjunctive, past perfect etc… Even for me as a native speaker, it gets to a complicated level very fast.
But to keep it on a simpler level, we´re going to stay with the indicative mode (present tense).
So there are different cases or persons to conjugate. These cases/persons are:
Ich – Me or I
Du – you (singular)
Er – he
Sie – she
Es – it
Wir – We
Ihr – you (plural)
Sie – they
So we´ll begin with a simple example. Let´s take the verb “gehen” (to walk):
Ich gehe – I walk
Du gehst – you walk
Er geht – he walks
Sie geht – she walks
Es geht – it walks
Wir gehen – we walk
Ihr geht – you walk
Sie gehen – they walk
As you can see, in German there are a lot more differences as in English. In English there is just a difference with the third person (he/she/it) whereas in German it changes almost with every person.
A second example is the verb “kratzen” (to scratch). Here it looks a bit confusing because of the z´s and t´s:
Ich kratze – I scratch
Du kratzt – you scratch
Er kratzt – he scratches
Sie kratzt – she scratches
Es kratzt – it scratches
Wir kratzen – we scratch
Ihr kratzt – you scratch
Sie kratzen – they scratch
As you can see here, not all the verbs follow the same rules when you conjugate them. The endings of “gehen” and “kratzen” are totally different when conjugating.
So what I want to do now, is giving you some verbs to conjugate (only German). You can use the comment field for you conjugations:
stehen – to stay
lesen – to read
leben – to live
Two days from now I will publish the correct conjugations so you can compare it with your exercise.
