German grammar - the past tenses

Learn how to conjugate the German perfect, imperfect & pluperfect tenses, and when to use them.

This course has been updated in November 2016.

Are you a German learner and struggling to conjugate German verbs in the past tense?

Do you keep on forgetting how the verbs change from the present tense to the past tense? Do you often wonder if it's a regular or irregular verb or if you need to use HABEN or SEIN?

Is this really annoying you?

Then this course is going to help you!

In this course we will only look at German verbs in the past tense and we'll cover the following:

the perfect tense with haben
the perfect tense with sein
regular verbs
irregular verbs
separable verbs
inseparable verbs
the imperfect tense
the pluperfect tense
This course is not necessarily designed for you to work your way through.

If you are a beginner then this course isn't for you yet. This course assumes that you already have a sound knowledge of the present tense, so make sure you know how to conjugate verbs in the present tense before buying this course.

If you are an advanced student, you probably know everything in this course but it might be a welcome refresher.

If you are an intermediate student, then either watch all the videos to revise what you have already learned, or pick those chapter that you are struggling with.

It doesn't matter how quickly you complete the course - it isn't a race - the important bit is that you can conjugate verbs in the past tense!

At the end of the course you will have a better understanding of German verbs in the past tense which will make life a lot easier when you want to be able to tell people in German about things you have done.