German/Lesson 10

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Wiederholung

Lesson 10 is a review (Wiederholung) lesson to summarize the German language lessons presented in Lessons 6 through 9. You should, as well, return to Lektion 6 and review (that is, completely reread) each of the four lessons back up to this point. For a more advanced course, you should now incorporate each of the advanced lessons into this "review" process. That is: review Lesson 6, then do Lesson 6A, review Lesson 7, then do Lesson 7A, etc. If the advanced lessons have already been completed, then now review lessons in the order 6 -> 6A -> 7 -> 7A -> 8, etc.

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Verb Conjugation

You have learned that there is a relationship between the subject of a verb and the form that verb takes in German. Some verbs follow a predictable regular pattern, while others are less predictable (irregular verbs).

verb:                können (can)          gehen (go)         sein (to be)

pronoun              verb I (irreg.)       verb II            verb III (irregular)
Basicform            können                gehen              sein
ich                  kann                  gehe               bin
du                   kannst                gehst              bist
er/sie/es            kann                  geht               ist
wir                  können                gehen              sind
ihr                  könnt                 geht               seid
sie                  können                gehen              sind
Sie (formal)         können                gehen              sind

As you can see, any verb uses the same declination for wir, sie and Sie. Also, er/sie/es uses the same declination for all three genders.