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SUMMARY:Past Tense Reloaded: Präteritum
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DESCRIPTION: In German, we have several ways of saying that something happened in the past, just as in English (I went, I have gone, I had gone ...). Now you might say, “I already know one German past tense, so why do I need another one?”Basically, I agree with you. For your spoken German, Perfekt is perfect. However Germans also use Präteritum a lot, so I want to show it to you because you are going to read and hear it all the time.The tense you have already learned (Perfekt) corresponds to the English present perfect:I have spoken.= Ich habe gesprochen.
The one I am talking about here (Präteritum) corresponds to the English simple past:I spoke.Ich sprach.
How to use PräteritumThe most important function to use Präteritum in written German is to tell a story that happened in the past. Almost all German novels are written in Präteritum, as are newspaper reports, travel blogs, and so on.But you can also hear Präteritum in...

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