Wir laden deine ganze Familie zum Abendessen ein. What? Why are you inviting my mother to dinner? Was? Warum lädst du meine Mutter zum Abendessen ein? Ich lade deine Mutter zum Abendessen ein. When added to the prefix “ein-”, you get the verb “to invite” in German. Well, if that verb also has a stem change from a to ä, it does not get this E added to the du and er, sie, es forms. You may remember from my lesson about regular conjugation in the present tense that you add an E between the stem and the ending when the verb stem ends with T or D. That sounds simple enough, but there is one quirk with this. So the full conjugation of “fahren” looks like this: ich fahre I drive du fährst you drive er, sie, es fährt he, she, it drives wir fahren we drive ihr fahrt you drive sie, Sie fahren they, you drive Present Tense Conjugation of “fahren”Īs you can see, we simply added an umlaut to the du and er, sie, es forms of the verb. These stem changes, however, only affect the du and er, sie, es forms. The verb “fahren” means “to drive” and falls into the first category of a to ä. You have likely come across all three of these categories of verbs in your German learning already, but you haven’t even realized it. There are three categories of stem-changing verbs in the German present tense: a to ä, e to i and e to ie. How many kinds of stem-changing verbs are there in German? Grammar terminology isn’t very creative in the naming department sometimes. We call these verbs “stem-changing verbs”. Sometimes there is a change required within the stem of the verb. For example: ich mache I do, make du machst you do, make er, sie, es macht he, she, it does, makes wir machen we do, make ihr macht you do, make sie, Sie machen they, you do, make Present Tense Conjugation of “machen” Normally when you change a verb to fit the subject of the sentence, you simply remove -en or -n from the end of the infinitive and add the ending that corresponds to your subject. So the stem of “machen” is “mach” and the stem of “kennen” is “kenn”. The stem of a verb is the part before the ending of -en or -n in the infinitive form.
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