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Past tense: Imperfect
German has two main past tenses: Perfect tense and imperfect tense. The imperfect has also the name preterite. In A1 you will learn only a bunch of verbs in imperfect. The first ones are “haben” and “sein”.
Hatte
Ich hatte
Du hattest
Er/Sie/Es hatte
Wir hatten
Ihr hattet
Sie hatten
War
Ich war
Du warst
Er/Sie/Es war
Wir waren
Ihr wart
Sie waren
You can now say many great things in the past. The word positions stay the same.
Examples:
Hattest du gestern Spaß? Did you have fun yesterday?
Ich war krank. I was sick.
Stefan und Marie hatten Urlaub. Stefan and Marie had vacation.
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Time adverbs
The following adverbs will make your sentences more natural (not only in past, but also in present tense statements).
nie/niemals — never
selten — rarely
manchmal — sometimes
häufig/oft — often
immer — always
Example dialogue:
A: Warst du schon mal in New York? Have you ever been in New York?
B: Nein, ich war noch nie in New York. No, I never have been in New York.
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