German/Lesson 10

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Wiederholung
Lesson 10 is a review (Wiederholung) lesson to summarize the German language lessons presented in Lessons 6 through 9. You should, as well, return to Lektion 6 and review (that is, completely reread) each of the four lessons back up to this point. For a more advanced course, you should now incorporate each of the advanced lessons into this "review" process. That is: review Lesson 6, then do Lesson 6A, review Lesson 7, then do Lesson 7A, etc. If the advanced lessons have already been completed, then now review lessons in the order 6 -> 6A -> 7 -> 7A -> 8, etc.

Verb Conjugation
You have learned that there is a relationship between the subject of a verb and the form that verb takes in German. Some verbs follow a predictable regular pattern, while others are less predictable (irregular verbs).

verb:               können (can)          gehen (go)         sein (to be) pronoun             verb I (irreg.)       verb II            verb III (irregular) Basicform           können                gehen              sein ich                 kann                  gehe               bin du                  kannst                gehst              bist er/sie/es           kann                  geht               ist wir                 können                gehen              sind ihr                 könnt                 geht               seid sie                 können                gehen              sind Sie (formal)        können                gehen              sind

As you can see, any verb uses the same declination for wir, sie and Sie. Also, er/sie/es uses the same declination for all three genders.