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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................5
A Note From The Author..............................................6
1. What's Conjugation?......................................................7
3 Things You Should Know About Conjugation.....8
2. How Does It Work?..........................................................9
3 Steps From Infinitive To Verb.................................10
Overview & Summary............................................18
The Most Notable Exception.....................................23
3. Why Don't You Try It Yourself?.................................25
Level 1: “Six persons, four endings“.........................27
Level 2: “Two more, please!”.......................................28
Level 3: “To be or not to be...”.....................................29
Level 4: ”Now everyone...“...........................................30
Answer Key.....................................................................31
Further Links & Resources.........................................35
About the Author...............................................................36
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Introduction
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A Note From The Author
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1. What's Conjugation?
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3 Things You Should Know
About Conjugation
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2. How Does It Work?
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3 Steps From Infinitive To Verb
3. Add the endings “-e, -st, -t, -en, -t, -en” depen-
ding on what you need at the moment. Example:
if you want to say “I say” you take the stem “sag-”
and add “-e” so that it becomes “Ich sage”.
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Simple, isn't it?
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1st person singular (“I”)
„Ich sage“
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2nd person singular (“you”)
„Du sagst“
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3rd person singular (“he”, “she”, “it”)
„Er sagt“
„Sie sagt“
„Es sagt“
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1st person plural (“we“)
„Wir sagen“
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2nd person plural (“you”)
„Ihr sagt“
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3rd person plural (“they”)
„Sie sagen“
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Overview & Summary
Here's the same rule again at one glance:
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Notes:
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Do you see the pattern? In the end, although there
are six different pronouns (or persons) they share the
same four endings!
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Question: “So these four forms are basi-
cally all I need to know?”
Yes, these four forms (-e, st, -t, -en) cover most needs
when talking about the present tense. However, you
should note that there are two other ways to use two
of these endings.
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The good news here is that you don't have to learn
any additional new endings. “Man” and “Sie” work
just like “he” and “sie”.
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The Most Notable Exception
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Notes:
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3. Why Don't You Try It
Yourself?
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Note:
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Level 1: “Six persons, four end-
ings“
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Level 2: “Two more, please!”
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Level 3: “To be or not to be...”
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Level 4: ”Now everyone...“
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Answer Key
Level 1:
1. geht
2. rennen
3. liebe
4. kaufst
5. fragt / fragen (it could be one person or many)
6. lebt
7. regnet
8. spielt
9. guckst
10. rauche
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Level 2:
1. schreibt
2. lernen
3. haben
4. hört
5. Wohnen
6. antworten
7. singt
8. kochen
9. sitzen
10. surft
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Level 3:
1. bist
2. sind
3. bin
4. seid
5. ist
6. ist
7. ist
8. bist
9. ist
10. bin
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Level 4:
1. Ist
2. hören
3. Lebt
4. schreibst
5. hat
6. gehe
7. Hast
8. kostet
9. sind
10. kommt
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Further Links & Resources
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About the Author
André Klein was born in Germany,
grew up in Sweden and Thailand and
currently lives in Israel. He has been
teaching languages for more than 15
years and is the author of various
short stories, picture books and non-
fiction works in English and German.
Website: andreklein.net
Twitter: twitter.com/barrencode
Blog: learnoutlive.com/blog
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