Meine Mannschaft: stem changes 't' not 'st', 'e' before 't'/'st', 'el' stem | German

Starter quiz

The ______ tense describes what is happening now or habitual events.

'present' ✓
Which of these is the verb stem?

spielen

spiel- ✓

gespielt

-en
Match the German and English.

Dorf (n)

⇔

village ✓

Frau (f)

⇔

woman ✓

Geld (n)

⇔

money ✓

Leistung (f)

⇔

performance ✓

Umgebung (f)

⇔

surroundings ✓

Auto (n)

⇔

car ✓
Match the German and English.

ankommen

⇔

to arrive, arriving ✓

träumen

⇔

to dream, dreaming ✓

sitzen

⇔

to sit, sitting ✓

sammeln

⇔

to collect, collecting ✓

schließen

⇔

to close, closing ✓

retten

⇔

to save, saving ✓
Order the words to say: 'Exercise is very important to me.'

2

⇔

Bewegung

3

⇔

ist

4

⇔

mir

5

⇔

sehr

6

⇔

wichtig
Translate into English: 'Radfahren macht Spaß.'

'Cycling is fun.' ✓

Match the German and English.

Besuch (m)

⇔

visit ✓

Mannschaft (f)

⇔

team ✓

Rolle (f)

⇔

role, roll ✓

Wettbewerb (m)

⇔

competition ✓

Roman (m)

⇔

novel ✓

Runde (f)

⇔

round, lap ✓
Sort the words below into the correct order to form the following sentence: 'The TV programme was not successful.'

1

⇔

die

2

⇔

Sendung

3

⇔

war

4

⇔

nicht

5

⇔

erfolgreich
Match up the sentence halves about different types of verbs.

Weak verbs

⇔

follow a regular pattern of changes in the present tense. ✓

Verb stems ending in ‘s’, ‘ß’, ‘x’, ‘z’

⇔

add just ‘t’ instead of ‘st’ in the ‘du’ form. ✓

Verb stems ending in ‘-el’

⇔

lose the ‘e’ in the first person singular of the present tense. ✓

Verb stems ending in ‘d’ or ‘t’

⇔

add ‘e’ before the ending in the ‘du’, ‘er, sie, es’ and ‘ihr’ forms. ✓
Which of these are entirely regular weak verbs in the present tense?

schreiben ✓

bieten

brauchen ✓

tanzen

finden
Translate the following into German: 'I change'.

'Ich wechsle.' ✓
Translate the following into German: 'You draw'.

'Du zeichnest.' ✓

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Weak verbs follow a regular pattern of changes in the present tense.
For verbs stems ending in 'd', ‘t', 'm' or 'n', add 'e' before the ending in the 'du', 'er/sie/es' and 'ihr' forms.
For verb stems ending in 's', 'ß', 'x' or 'z', add just 't' instead of 'st' in the 'du' form.
For stems ending in -el, remove the 'e' in the first person singular of the present tense.

For verb stems ending in ‘-el’, remove the 'e' from the stem in all present tense forms.

For verb stems ending in ‘-el’, remove the 'e' from the stem in the first person singular of the present tense only.

Weak verb - a verb that follows a regular pattern of changes
Stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms, created by removing the 'en' or 'n' ending of the infinitive