Starter quiz
- Match the German and English.
- Nacht (f)⇔night ✓
- Österreich (nt)⇔Austria ✓
- Platz (m)⇔place, room ✓
- Spiel (nt)⇔game ✓
- Stück (nt)⇔piece ✓
- Zug (m)⇔train ✓
- Which of the words below have a long vowel?
- wohnen ✓
- reden ✓
- grün ✓
- Arzt (m)
- wünschen
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- Match the beginnings and endings of each word or phrase
- lieg⇔en ✓
- mit⇔Freunden ✓
- im⇔Klassenzimmer ✓
- es⇔gibt ✓
- mit deiner⇔Mutter ✓
- sehr⇔oft ✓
- Fill in the gap in the following sentence with the correct form of 'liegen': 'Er ______ zu Hause.'
- 'liegt' ✓
- What is a weak verb?
- A weak verb has a regular pattern of changes when we apply verb endings. ✓
- A weak verb has no regular pattern of changes when we apply verb endings.
- A weak verb is irregular in the present tense.
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- Translate the following sentence into German: 'How many are there?'
- 'Wie viele gibt es?' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which of these words have a short vowel?
- denken ✓
- geben
- finden ✓
- wir
- Handy ✓
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- Match the German and English.
- fahren⇔to drive, ride ✓
- helfen⇔to help, helping ✓
- schlafen⇔to sleep, sleeping ✓
- Zeitung (f)⇔newspaper ✓
- Urlaub (m)⇔holiday ✓
- Geld (nt)⇔money ✓
- Strong verbs change their vowel in the 3rd person singular. Which verbs can be strong?
- Verbs with a 'u' in their verb stem.
- Verbs with an 'a' in their verb stem. ✓
- Verbs with an 'e' in their verb stem. ✓
- Verbs with an 'i' in their verb stem.
- Verbs that do not have an 'e' or 'a' in their verb stem.
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- Verb stems with a letter '______' change to 'i' or 'ie'.
- 'e' ✓
- Verb stems with an 'a' or 'au' ...
- change to ü.
- change to ö.
- change to ä. ✓
- change to äu. ✓
- do not change.
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- Complete the following sentence using the correct form of 'sprechen': 'Er ______ am Handy.'
- 'spricht' ✓
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Key learning points
- A strong verb changes its vowel in the verb stem of the 'sie', 'er', 'es' forms of the verb.
- There is no vowel change in the ‘ich’ form of strong verbs.
- Only verbs with a 'a' or 'e' in their verb stem can be strong.
- Verb stems with 'a' change to 'ä' and those with 'e' become 'i' or 'ie'.
- Use reference materials to learn which verbs are strong.
Common misconception
There are no rules to help you learn which verbs are strong and have a vowel change in their stem.
Only verbs with an 'a' or 'e' in their stem can be strong.
Keywords
Strong verb - a verb which changes its vowel in the verb stem of some of its forms
Verb stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms, created by removing the ending of the infinitive
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