Achtung: In the video I will show you a powerful technique that will help you to memorize the past forms of the irregular verbs.

You'll find a downloadable list with all relevant irregular verbs with their translations and mnemonics and a pdf with some illustrations for all key verbs with this lesson. You should find them at the bottom labeled as "downloads". I'll soon create an extra mini-online course for this topic but don't hold your breath. For now you have to work with this one list and its accompanying images.

Doppel-Achtung: In this video I will mention the irregular Präteritum. This topic is covered much later (on my B1 course). And I suggest that you simply ignore this topic. It is not necessary to know anything about this topic to apply this lovely technique. But if you feel the urge to integrate the irregular Präteritum already now, just watch all videos in the app above which will explain it neatly. This way you won't have to jump around in this course.

The irregular Perfekt is not sooo far off the regular form, and you now have a neat technique to learn them. Take a look at these examples:

Ich habe alles gesehen.
I have seen everything.*

Hast du dieses Buch schon gelesen?
Have you already read this book?

Wir haben gestern darüber gesprochen.
We have spoken about this yesterday.

What's the difference to the regular forms?

There are two differences to the regular Perfekt:

1. The past participles end in -en.
2. Quite a few of them change the stem vowel (gesprochen)

In this course, I will provide you with some useful tips beyond the memorization technique above that will make learning the irregular forms a bit easier.**

Footnotes - Fußnoten

* I have deliberately chosen the Present Perfect here to make you familiar with the way we use the past in German.

** Unfortunately the change of the root vowel is unpredictable for us mortals which means that you will have to learn almost each individual irregular form by heart. But with the app that you'll find in the next step you can achieve this very easily and quickly.