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Some German verbs are very strong willed • They do not exactly follow the pattern of weak or regular verbs • They change with ‘Du’ and ‘er/sie/es’
One of these verbs is ‘essen’ (to eat) So what happens to the verb ‘essen’ in the PRESENT TENSE? Let’s find out…
Step 1: get rid off the INFINIVE ending: ess en en Step 2: add the verb endings for ‘I’, ‘you’ etc. Ich ess e
ess Ich e (he) st (you – talking to a young person) (I) er du en t sie (she) t es (it) t
ess ihr t (you – talking to young people) Sie en (you – talking to one adult) wir en en (we) Sie en (you – talking to adults) sie (they) en
ess Ich du er/sie/es ihr wir sie Sie en (to eat) ess e (I) (you-talking to a young person) (he/she/it) (you- talking to young people) (we) (they) (you-talking to a stranger/strangers) iss t ess en ess en
Fine, but what if I want to talk about my friend or my sister? No problem. Have a look at this: Mein Freund Mein Bruder Mein Vater = er Meine Freundin Meine Schwester Meine Mutter = sie Meine Freundin und ich Meine Eltern Meine Freunde (he) = wir = = = ending ‘t’ Meine Mutter isst = ending ‘en’ (she) (we) ending ‘t’ Mein Bruder isst sie (they)= Meine Freundin und ich essen ending ‘en’ e. g. Meine Eltern essen
So what happened to the verb ‘essen’ in the PRESENT TENSE? The stem ‘ess’ changed to ‘iss’ with ‘du’ (isst) and ‘er/sie/es’ (isst)
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