German verbs Tense - Present Perfect

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In German, Present Perfect is used to express a action in the past.
Position 1
Position 2
other information in the sentence
end-of-record (Satzende)
Ich
ist
im Juli nach Berlin mit ein freund
gefahren.
Peter
hat
um elf Uhr nach Taiwan
gegessen.


German verbs can be categorized as weak and strong two types. Weak verbs is relatively easy to change to present Perfect.

Weak verb: 
1.add haben/sein as auxiliary verb, and "ge" in front of verb. In addition, replace the end of verb "en" with "t" or "et"(as end of verb stem is d or t).
ex. hören(hear) → hat gehört
ex. antworten(work) →hat geanwortet
2.But as separable verbs (trennbare Verben), you must put "Peparable Verb Prefixes" in front of "ge".
ex. zurückmailen(writeback) → hat zurückgemailt
3. -ieren: this kind of verbs need no "ge" in front of it.
ex. funktionieren(operate)→ hat funktioniert

Strong verb: this kind of verbs have diverse ways to change as Present Perfect. Including change vowel, keep original form, change both vowel and consonant, etc.
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