Rocket German: The End of a Word

The End Of A Word

As you already know, conjugations are the changes a verb goes through depending on who is doing the action. Fortunately, conjugations follow some simple rules. All you have to do is change the ending of the verb according to the appropriate rule. There are also some exceptions; it wouldn’t be German if there weren’t any.

You have learned how to conjugate “sprechen”to speak before. “Sprechen” is an irregular verb, which means the forms are different to the regular ones. Let’s have a look at the regular conjugations right now.

Let’s start with the present tense and see how the verb endings change.
Most verbs end in either –en or –n . Each type of verb (- en or – n) has a different set of endings.

	-en verbs lachen (to laugh)	-n verbs segeln (to sail)
ich	lach-e	segel-e
du	lach-st	segel-st
er	lach-t	segel-t
sie	lach-t	segel-t
es	lach-t	segel-t
wir	lach-en	segel-n
ihr	lach-t	segel-t
sie	lach-en	segel-n

Zum Beispiel:

Sie lacht immer.	She is always laughing
Wir segeln um die Welt.	We are sailing around the world.
Wir lachen über die gleichen Witze.	We laugh at the same jokes.
Er segelt mit seinen Freunden.	He sails with his friends.

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