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More about the past
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You form the past participle of regular verbs by removing the ending -en from the infinitive, ie. the dictionary form, and then adding ge- to the beginning and t to the end: 
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The word order in sentences with the past is different from English. The past participle in German appears at the end of the sentence.
In some past participles you have to add -en at the end, or just leave the verb as it is in the dictionary form. The verb can change as it does in English, eg. sing/sung, drink/drunk:
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Verbs beginning with ver- don't take ge- at the beginning, but keep the ver-. However, in some cases it is followed by a vowel change.
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When you learn German verbs it makes sense to memorise the way they change when put into the past as well. |
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