Verb gehen: conjugation

Conjugation of verbs is a rather difficult section of German grammar. The part of the speech that designates the action is modified as a result of attaching the suffix, but only if it belongs to the category of weak verbs. For example: ich arbeite, er arbeitet and so on. But there are also strong verbs, for example, gehen. The conjugation of such verbs, at first glance, occurs in spite of any rules. In total, such parts of speech in Goethe's language are 183. Their forms must be learned.

Past Time (gehen)

Conjugation of strong verbs occurs through root changes. But why is this happening? Why such verbs are not conjugated by attaching suffixes? The matter is that to strong verbs, as a rule, old words that appeared before the transformations, which in the nineteenth century touched the vocabulary, grammar and stylistics of the German language, are referred to.

What form will the verb gehen have in the past tense ? The conjugation of this part of speech occurs, as already said, by changing the root. That is in Präteritum - ging. And in Partizip II it has the form of a gegangen verb gehen .

The conjugation of another verb, which also belongs to the category of strong, occurs quite differently. For example, beißen (bite) in the past tense will be biß. It would seem that there is no general trend. и так далее) удастся лишь за несколько месяцев. And remember the conjugation of German verbs ( gehen, beißen, and so on) will be possible only in a few months. But you can slightly ease the task. All strong verbs need to be divided into several groups, each of which will consist of parts of speech that have similar roots and vary according to the general scheme. True, there will be more than twenty such groups. But the learning process will be simplified. ни в одну из таких групп не войдет. However, the trouble is that the verb gehen will not enter any of these groups. It conjugates in its own, "unique" scheme.

Nowadays

The way the German verb "go" in the past tense forms should be remembered. In other cases, the root of this word does not change. спрягается в настоящем времени так, как и слабые. Unlike many strong verbs, gehen conjugates in the present tense in the same way as weak ones. That is, the suffix -st is appended to the second person of the singular. In the third - -t. In the first and third plural, the suffix -en is added.

Verbs formed from gehen

In German there are prefixes shock and unstressed. The first, entering the verb, are separated from the root and are often at the end of the sentence. Bezudarnye (be-, er-, ge-, zer-, etc.) are never separated. Such prefixes in the past participle replace ge-. For example: begehen (Infinitiv), beging (Präteritum) begangen (Partizip II).

How will the verbs with the prefix, which is under stress, change? Their conjugation will look like this:

• Aufgehen (infinitive);
• Ging auf (elapsed time);
• Aufgegangen (past participle).