Lesson 6: Conjugation of Verbs in the present and past tenses

Perhaps in the books you noticed the distinction between Svake or Sterke (ie weak and strong) verbs.
I think this is a very confusing and that is why I developed my own system of learning verbs.

When you learn a new verb in my opinion it is easier to adopt a rule that verbs are divided into: regular, partly (ir)regular and irregular.

REGULAR VERBS

PRESENT TENSE: (Presens)



As you know from the lessons 1a, in the present tense verb gains suffix (-er). This applies of course to regular verbs.






PAST TIMES (Separate lesson will be later)

Preteritum = Past Simple

Presens Perfectum = Present Perfect

In Preteritum and Presens Perfectum we distinguish 4 groups of regular verbs (ie, the verb adopts certain endings depending on the group it belongs to). 

Most regular verbs belong to I* or II* group.

PARTLY (IR)REGULAR VERBS

By partly (ir)regular verbs I mean those verbs which in the present tense retain their regular ending (-er) but the verb is irregular in the past tenses.  Typically, the irregularity involves changing one vowel to another, for example

Of course you have to know which verbs belong to this group.

IRREGULAR VERBS

As the name suggests, these are the verbs which conjugations you just have to remember .

In the blog I will always distinguish between partly (ir)regular and irregular verbs (by changing the color of the font)  which I hope will facilitate learning new verbs.