Activities at home: verb infinitives and singular persons

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.

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What you'll learn

  • [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.

Common mix-up

“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).

Keywords

See all the words in the word bank

[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

Try the first question

Which words contain a hard [ch]?

  • Kirche
  • Buch
  • Nacht
  • nochmal
  • sechzehn

Year 7 · German · Key Stage 3 · Lesson 4 of 6

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