How do you form the perfect tense?

The perfect tense is like a sandwich. The subject pronoun, then a conjugated auxiliary verb which is either haben or sein in agreement with the subject pronoun is the at the beginning of the sentence. The rest of the sentence comes in the middle and finally, at the end, the past participle.

e.g. Ich habe Fussball gespielt.

Subject pronouns:

Subject pronoun and ver conjugation:    

English:        German:          Haben:          Sein:

I                     ich                  habe              bin

you                du                   hast               bist

He/she/it       er/sie/es          hat                 ist

We                wir                  haben            sind

You (plural)  ihr                   habt               seid

They            sie                   haben            sind

You             Sie                   haben            sind

Answered by Georgina D. German tutor

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