Drill · A1

The Present Tense, and Verb-Second

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The stem of kaufen is kauf-. Which form goes with du?

Sources

  • GrammarDurrell, Martin, Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 5th edn. London: Routledge, 2011. — §12.1 (pp. 223–226) on what the German present covers; §12.2.1–12.2.2 with Tables 12.2–12.3 (pp. 226–236) on the endings, the -e- of stems in -d and -t, the second person after a sibilant, the verbs in -eln and -ern, the vowel alternation, and the presents of sein and haben; §3.1.1 with Table 3.1 (pp. 48–50) on the personal pronouns and on du, ihr and Sie; §5.5.18 on man; §21.1.1 and §21.2.1 (pp. 450–460) on the second position of the finite verb; §18.1.3 (p. 356) and §18.6 (p. 379) on the Nominativergänzung, with §2.1.3 (p. 33) on the nominative; §6.1.1 (p. 119) on the uninflected predicative adjective.
  • DictionaryGoethe-Zertifikat A1: Start Deutsch 1 — Wortliste. Munich: Goethe-Institut. — Cited for the citation forms of the verbs and adjectives in this section's vocabulary.