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Although we, in English, don't really use a different form when speaking formally, Germans distinguish between the formal and the informal depending on who they are speaking to. The first basic rule of this ...

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 re...

Start early and write down what you want to say. Check that it meets all the required learning outcomes and the markscheme. Next practise reading it out loud (you could read it to someone who is a native spe...

As a general rule, verbs that in the present have an akkusative object form the perfect with haben. The rest with sein. For example: The table breaks = Der Tisch bricht. [ Subject Nominative: tisch, verb: br...

The present perfect is used to express an action in the past that could still be going on until this day. For example: "Ich habe seit seit gestern nicht gegessen". To form it, you need to use the a...