SIMPLIFYING the PAST TENSE in GERMAN | Bausteine zwei

Let's see if we can make sense of the past tense in German. In particular, we're going to concentrate on the 2-part past tense (das Perfekt). When can we use it? (most of the time); do we mostly start with 'haben' or 'sein'?(haben); and what's with the crazy word order? (nothing it's just keeping the best til last).

at 06:30 I've doubled up on the prefix ver-, one of them should be zer- [oops!]

This video is part of the Introduction to German 1B course at the University of Tasmania. It is based on the textbook Bausteine zwei—written by me, Dr Billy Badger.

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[juanfran]

Ich bin selber Deutschlehrer. Das waren sehr gute Erklärungen zur Bildung und zum Gebrauch des Perfekt.

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[harivinayak]

Erzälen Sie mal, wie man Partizip II verwendet für Sätze wie "It would have been better if I had xyz" oder "Had it been this way, ABC would have been better/worse." Hätte ich mehr zeit gehabt, hätte ich das kürzer gesagt, zum beispiel.

[roaneeroane]

I am confuse when i research past tense gehen they conjugate as gingen.

[sudipchat]

Hallo! I have a question. I have seen a sentence: 'Aber ich habe ihn gestern mit einem Mädchen tanzen sehen'. I think the correct formation should be ' Aber habe ich...tanzen GEsehen'. Not sure if this in Perfekt or some other tense. Kindly clarify. Vielen Dank.

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