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49: Hat er das nicht gesagt? | Hasn’t he said that?

German Stories - Learn German with Stories | Deutsch lernen mit Geschichten

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How to Use the Helping Verb Haben

In German we use the helping verb haben to have and the participle gesacht said. For example ich habe es ge kauft. I have bought it. We will cover another helping verb that is used in different situations in the following lessons. The two tenses, preteritum and perfect are distant cousins of the English tenses, simple past and perfect tense. But they are not the same. As you know we don't shy away from using weird English in order to make learning German easier for you. Therefore from now on we'll always translate anything that's in the prateritum with the simple past equivalent and anything that’s in the

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