Was hast du gestern gemacht?
What did you do yesterday?
German A1 · Lesson 29/30 · Free
Past with Perfekt
In this lesson you will learn to telling simple actions that already happened.
Lektion 2901 · First, listen
Dialogue in context
Listen to the complete conversation and follow the translation.
AnnaWas hast du gestern gemacht?What did you do yesterday?
02 · Essential phrases
Listen and repeat
Learn each expression as a complete block.
Ich habe gearbeitet und Deutsch gelernt.
I worked and studied German.
Bist du danach nach Hause gegangen?
Then you went home?
Nein, ich bin ins Café gegangen.
No, I went to the café.
Hast du Anna getroffen?
Did you meet Anna?
Ja, wir haben zusammen gegessen.
Yes, we ate together.
Ich habe gearbeitet
Ich habe gearbeitet is the spoken past, Perfekt: habe, the auxiliary, plus gearbeitet, the participle, at the end. Most verbs form the participle with ge- ...
Perfekt: habe,
Ich habe gearbeitet is the spoken past, Perfekt: habe, the auxiliary, plus gearbeitet, the participle, at the end. Most verbs form the participle with ge- ...
03 · Understand the logic
Explanation
Keep the German visible while you listen to the explanation.
Explanation 1
Dialog im Kontext
Notice the auxiliary plus participle pair and how movement requires
Explanation 2
gearbeitet
Ich habe gearbeitet is the spoken past, Perfekt: habe, the auxiliary, plus gearbeitet, the participle, at the end. Most verbs form the participle with ge- ...
Explanation 3
Deutsch
Ich habe Deutsch gelernt follows the same pattern: habe plus gelernt at the end, with the object Deutsch in the middle. Remember the ge- ... pattern.
Explanation 4
Was hast du gemacht?
is the question that opens any conversation about the past: 'what did you do?'. Notice that the auxiliary
04 · Review
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