Conjugation of verbs is a rather difficult section of German grammar. The part of speech that denotes an action is modified as a result of the addition of a 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. Conjugation of such verbs, at first glance, occurs contrary to any rules. There are 183 such parts of speech in Goethe's language. Their forms must be learned.
Elapsed Time (gehen)
Conjugation of strong verbs occurs through root changes. But why is this happening? Why aren't such verbs conjugated by appending suffixes? The fact is that the strong verbs include, as a rule, old words that arose even before the transformations, which in the nineteenth century touched upon the vocabulary, grammar and stylistics of the German language.
What form in the past tense will the verb gehen have ? Conjugation of this part of speech occurs, as already mentioned, by changing the root. That is, in Präteritum - ging. And in Partizip II, the verb gehen has the form gegangen .
Conjugation of another verb, also related to the category of strengths, occurs in a completely different way. For example, beißen (bite) in the past tense will be biß. It would seem that there is no general trend. And the conjugation of German verbs ( gehen, beißen and so on) will be remembered in only a few months. But you can make the task a little easier. 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. However, the trouble is that the verb gehen will not be included in any of these groups. It conjugates in its "unique" pattern.
| Infinitive | Present | Past time | Past participle | Transfer |
| gehen | geht | ging | gegangen | go |
Present
The German verb "go" in past tense forms should be remembered. In other cases, the root of this word does not change. Unlike many strong verbs, gehen conjugates in the present tense as well as weak ones. That is, in the second person singular, the suffix -st is added. In the third - -t. In the first and third person plural, the suffix -en is added.
Verbs derived from gehen
In German, there are prefixes shock and unstressed. The former, being part of the verb, are separated from the root and are often at the end of the sentence. Unstressed (be-, er-, ge-, zer-, etc.) never separate. 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 as follows:
- aufgehen (infinitive);
- ging auf (past tense);
- aufgegangen (past participle).