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Language notes
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habe es umgebaut |
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Ich habe es
umgebaut.
I have rebuilt
it.
Es hat mich
zurück gezogen.
It has
attracted me back.
Was hat die
Privatisierung Ihres Unternehmens geändert?
What has
privatisation changed for your business?
Das hat zu einer
Verschlechterung geführt.
That has led
to a deterioration.
Wir haben die
Kameradschaft sehr gepflegt.
We have encouraged (lit. nurtured)
a sense of camaraderie.
Wir haben in neue
Technologien investiert.
We have
invested in new technology.
When you want to
talk about something you've done or something that has happened, ie. events
in the past, in most cases you need to use haben - 'to have' and the past
participle of the verb, ie. umgebaut,
investiert, as shown in the examples above. This is called the
Perfekt tense.
Note that:
the past
participle is placed at the end of the sentence.
in Southern
Germany, German speaking Switzerland and Austria there is a tendency to use the
Perfekt tense for all past actions rather
than the alternative Imperfekt.
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