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Nach welchen Kriterien benotest du eigentlich mündliche Referate?
What criteria do you actually use to grade oral presentations?
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Benotet ihr die Gruppenarbeit gemeinsam oder jedes Mitglied einzeln?
Do you grade the group work jointly or each member individually?
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es benotet What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es benotete The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat benotet The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".
Conjugation
The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.
| Person | Präsens | Präteritum | Perfekt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | benote | benotete | habe benotet |
| du | benotest | benotetest | hast benotet |
| er/sie/es | benotet | benotete | hat benotet |
| wir | benoten | benoteten | haben benotet |
| ihr | benotet | benotetet | habt benotet |
| sie/Sie | benoten | benoteten | haben benotet |
- Präsens
- What happens now or usually; with a time word also the future.
- Präteritum
- The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfekt
- The past in conversation.
More Tenses and Moods
| Person | Plusquamperfekt | Futur I | Futur II |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | hatte benotet | werde benoten | werde benotet haben |
| du | hattest benotet | wirst benoten | wirst benotet haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte benotet | wird benoten | wird benotet haben |
| wir | hatten benotet | werden benoten | werden benotet haben |
| ihr | hattet benotet | werdet benoten | werdet benotet haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten benotet | werden benoten | werden benotet haben |
- Plusquamperfekt
- What had happened before another moment in the past.
- Futur I
- Plans, promises and guesses about the future; often the Präsens is enough.
- Futur II
- What will be finished by a moment in the future, or a guess about the past.
| Person | Konjunktiv II |
|---|---|
| ich | benotete |
| du | benotetest |
| er/sie/es | benotete |
| wir | benoteten |
| ihr | benotetet |
| sie/Sie | benoteten |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde benoten.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | benote! |
| ihr | benotet! |
| Sie | benoten Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
be prefix not root en ending
- be-
- makes a verb take a direct object: zahlen (to pay) → die Rechnung bezahlen (to pay the bill).
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Lotte teaches a seminar
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