Conjugation of verbs is a rather difficult sectionGerman grammar. The part of speech that designates an action is modified as a result of attaching a suffix, but only if it belongs to the category of weak verbs. For example: ich arbeite, er arbeitet and so on. But there are also strong verbs, for example, gehen. The conjugation of such verbs, at first glance, occurs contrary to any rules. All such parts of speech in Goethe's language are 183. Their forms must be learned.
Conjugation of strong verbs occurs byroot changes. But why is this happening? Why such verbs are not conjugated by attaching suffixes? The matter is that to strong verbs, as a rule, old words that appeared before the transformations, which in the nineteenth century concerned the vocabulary, grammar and stylistics of the German language, are related.
What form in the past tense will the verb have? gehen? The conjugation of this part of speech occurs, as already said, by changing the root. That is, in Präteritum - ging. And in Partizip II has the form gegangen verb gehen.
Conjugation of another verb, also referring tocategory of strong, it happens quite differently. For example, beißen (bite) in the past tense will be biß. It would seem that there is no general trend. And remember the conjugation of German verbs (gehen, beißen and so on) will be possible only in a few months.But you can lighten the task a little. All strong verbs need to be divided into several groups, each of which will consist of parts of speech that have similar roots and vary according to the general scheme. True, there will be more than twenty such groups. But the learning process will be simplified. However, the trouble is that the verb gehen will not enter any of these groups. He conjugates in his, "unique" scheme.
| Infinitive | Nowadays | Past tense | Past participle | Transfer |
| gehen | geht | ging | gegangen | go |
The way the German verb "go" in the past tense forms should be remembered. In other cases, the root of this word does not change. Unlike many strong verbs, gehen conjugates in the present tense in the same way as the weak.That is, the suffix -st is appended to the second person of the singular. In the third - -t. In the first and third plural, the -en suffix is added.
In German there are prefixes of shock andunstressed. The first, entering the verb, are separated from the root and are often at the end of the sentence. Bezudarnye (be-, er-, ge-, zer-, etc.) are never separated. Such prefixes in the past participle replace ge-. For example: begehen (Infinitiv), beging (Präteritum) begangen (Partizip II).
How will the verbs with the prefix, which is under stress, change? Their conjugation will look like this:
