Activities at home: verb infinitives and singular persons
Learning outcomes
I can recognise regular verbs in the infinitive and singular persons, use reference materials to identify unknown words, and translate accurately from German to English.
I can pronounce [ch].
Activities at home: verb infinitives and singular persons
Learning outcomes
I can recognise regular verbs in the infinitive and singular persons, use reference materials to identify unknown words, and translate accurately from German to English.
I can pronounce [ch].
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
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Key learning points
- [ch] is a hard sound after a, o, u and au, and soft after other sounds.
- The infinitive form of a verb is found in the dictionary and usually ends in 'en'.
- Singular persons of regular (weak) verbs in the present tense can be recognised by the endings -e, -st or -t.
Keywords
[ch] - pronounced soft as in 'ich' or hard as in 'Buch'
Infinitive - the dictionary form of a verb which gives its general meaning
Word order - the order of words in a sentence
Common misconception
Word order is the same in German and English.
Word order is not always the same in German and English. Pay close attention to the position of different sentence parts (subject, verb, nouns, adverbs).
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