Mastering the Perfect Tense in German: Unleashing the Ultimate Technique for Perfect Recall!

[@joshua5f169]

Dude these german grammar videos you make are insanely helpful. Your awesome bro

[@HerrFerguson]

Danke! Glad they help 😊

[@Sns340]

I stumbled on your channel recently. Your videos have been the best I'd watched so far. Power packed with information, clarity and visually pleasing. Super glad to have gotten the opportunity to revise them before my A2 exam. Vielen vielen Dank!

[@TaliaDoyle-fc5ms]

hi! thanks for such a great video! I'm wondering if you have any videos of practice questions where you then go through the answers? if not this would make a great addition!

[@HerrFerguson]

Great idea! Thanks! What kind of questions were you thinking? Translation questions into German? Or have I misunderstood?

[@TaliaDoyle-fc5ms]

@@HerrFerguson yes! translation would be great! using your channel to revise for final year of uni so this would be much appreciated!

[@ChielChien]

thank you so much!

[@ATASLIMI]

What about HABEN in perfect and past participle perform ?

[@HerrFerguson]

Regular past participle: gehabt “Ich habe Spaß gehabt” = I had fun More common to use the imperfect here: “Ich hatte Spaß”

[@darklight5316]

Wir haben den tieren apfel gefuttert. Why den tieren instead of die tiere? Indirect object or something else?

[@HerrFerguson]

Indirect object, exactly. We are feeding apples TO THE dogs

[@darklight5316]

Die vielfalt von fischen war wirklich interessant. Why dont we have to say like von den fischen like in every other instance?

[@darklight5316]

And another quick one😅 Wiest du wie alt der leuchtturm ist. Isnt the lighthouse the direct objeckt?

[@HerrFerguson]

Direct object of ‘sein’ takes nominative (as it is saying something is something else, so it is the ‘equals’ sign I’ve talked about)

[@HerrFerguson]

It ought to be ‘Die Vielfalt an Fischen war wirklich interessant’ because ‘Vielfalt’ goes with ‘an’ (plus dative) But as for why - You only generally need a definite article if you’re trying to say ‘the’ (the variety of the fish) It’s the same as English in this case. Hope that helps!

[@darklight5316]

Hat der chef ihnen meine akte geschikt. Is it ihnen because it is YOU plural and in dative plural it is en?

[@HerrFerguson]

No, it’s the dative pronoun. Nominative: sie (they) Accusative: sie (them) Dative: ihnen ([to/for] them)

[@simplfiedemil]

Brother how I can contact you cuz I have some questions about German? Ps:I don't have IG

[@HerrFerguson]

You can contact me through Facebook or Twitter (X), or post your question here and I’ll get back to you!

[@nassertariq-7052]

❤🎉

[@darklight5316]

Danach , konnen sie meinem kollegen da druben folgen. Why meinem ?

[@HerrFerguson]

‘Folgen’ has a dative object

[@darklight5316]

@@HerrFerguson I almost gave up on german , thinking it is a indirect object. That mskes sence but it is overwhelming...

[@HerrFerguson]

Yeah, it can be tricky at times. There’s just a list of verbs to learn that have a dative object. Keep going! I’m sure you’re making progress! 💪🏼

[@darklight5316]

@@HerrFerguson thank you a lot. These explanations make a huge difference♥️

[@darklight5316]

Der buch der frau ist langweilig. Why der?

[@HerrFerguson]

The first ‘der’ is a mistake, it should be ‘das’ The second one is genitive feminine (of the woman)

[@darklight5316]

@@HerrFerguson thank you , and just one quick Welchen roman hast du zuletzt gelesen. Why welchen and not welcher , i know welcher makes no sense when spelling it out. But what is the grammar behind that?

[@HerrFerguson]

This is coming up in a video I’m going to do soon, but it’s because ‘Welch-‘ follows the definite article pattern (welcher / welche / welches / welche, etc) and this example is because ‘which novel’ is the direct object of the verb. Novel is masculine (der Roman) so here it would be ‘welchen Roman’ because it, too, is accusative.

[@darklight5316]

@@HerrFerguson thank you , i will wait for the video. I disturbed you too much for today hahahah. Have a nice weekend herr Ferguson.