Compare lifestyles: present tense strong verbs 1st and 3rd person singular | German

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
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.
Translate the following sentence into German: 'How many are there?'
- 'Wie viele gibt es?' ✓

Which of these words have a short vowel?
- denken ✓
- geben
- finden ✓
- wir
- Handy ✓
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.
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.
Complete the following sentence using the correct form of 'sprechen': 'Er ______ am Handy.'
- 'spricht' ✓

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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.

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.

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