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Type the correct present tense form for each verb.
- Das Mädchen (gehen) zur Schule.[The girl goes to school.]|3rd person singular: we remove the ending en and add a t.
- Ich (kochen) heute das Essen.[I’ll cook the meal today.]|1st person singular: we remove the ending en and add an e.
- Er (wohnen) nicht hier.[He doesn’t live here.]|3rd person singular: we remove the ending en and add a t.
- (lernen) ihr Deutsch?[Are you learning German?]|2nd person plural: we remove the ending en and add a t.
- (Schreiben) du mir eine E-Mail?[Will you write me an e-mail?]|2nd person singular: we remove the ending en and add st.
Type the correct present tense form of each verb. Pay attention to exceptions in the construction.
- Du (sprechen) fünf Fremdsprachen.[You speak five foreign languages.]|In the 2nd/3rd person singular, e becomes i|2nd person singular → ending st|see list of irregular verbs
- Der Zug (fahren) in zehn Minuten.[The train departs in ten minutes.]|In the 2nd/3rd person singular, a becomes ä|3rd person singular → ending t|see list of irregular verbs
- Ihr (baden) im See.[You are bathing in the lake.]|If the word stem ends in d/t, for endings in st und t we add an e before the ending.
- Was (essen) du gerne?[What do you like to eat?]|In the 2nd/3rd person singular, e becomes i|The word stem ends in s, so in the 2nd person singular we only add a t.|see list of irregular verbs
- (lesen) er gern Krimis?[Does he like to read crime novels?]|In the 2nd/3rd person singular, e becomes ie|3rd person singular → ending t|see list of irregular verbs