There are more verb endings in German than in English, and these verb endings are often repeated. Like most European languages, German has a different ending for every subject or person. So, in German, I play becomes ich spiele, You Play is du spielst, and he/she/it plays becomes er/sie/es spielt. In the plural, most verbs, except in the 2nd person ends with en, as in wir spielen (we play) and ihr spielt (You play). Learning this pattern for a verb makes it easier to learn the pattern for all regular German verbs.
To explain it more clearly, in order to form the present tense and conjugate verbs in German, we first have to identify the stem by removing the suffix en, which occurs on almost all infinitives. For example, to conjugate the verb spielen, we take out the stem by removing the suffix = spiel. So, according to person and number, we add the ending, as in ich spiele, wir spielen, and so on. Whenever a stem ends with a sibilant – s, z, tz, , ss – t is added to the singular second person. When it ends with d, t, or consonant + n (except in r + n), est is added in the second person singular, while et is added for the singular third person and plural second...
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