The perfect tense is used to say what someone did, or has done, in the past. The perfect tense: How to talk about the past in German If you want to talk about what has happened in the past you’re ...

English requires the present perfect to express continuity, but German sticks to the present and leaves the context to do the work. And when it comes to talking about events and activities which have ...

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The imperfect tense close is mainly used in written or formal German. It describes past events. The verbs haben (to have) and sein (to be) are nearly always used in ...