03-A: Verbs and Personal Pronouns (Present Tense)

Verbs are words which express  what we are doing  or someone is doing.

Example:                      Infinitive   =    (the basic form of a verb)

• • • denk –en        –     to think
    • geh   -en        –     to go
    • lieb   -en        –     to love

Verb endings change according to Personal Pronouns

(Lesson:   04: Personal Pronouns -Nominative-)

If you look at the table in lesson 03-B you’ll see

1. The Infinitive of a verb always ends in –en.

2. The part or the word before –en is called the stem or the root of the verb.

3. The individual endings are added to this root of the verb.

4. Verbs used with 3rd Person Singular –er–sie–es– and 2nd Person Plural –ihr– have the
     same ending = –t. 

5. Verbs used with 1st Person Plural –wir-, 3rd Person Plural –sie– and the Polite Form –Sie– 
    end (like the Infinitive) in –en.