The present perfect in German 2
posted 11 months ago
Last time, we learned how to form the present perfect in German and we also had a little blackboard exercise to practise.
Today I’d like to tell you more about the usage:
Germans use the present perfect mostly in conversations. Very often, they express all kinds of things that happened in the past using this tense - even though technically (and in written language) you would have to use the simple past. This can be confusing to English speakers and so it’s important to know about it.
Compare:
Ich bin gestern ins Kino gegangen = I went to the movies yesterday.
Ich habe letztes Jahr meinen Brieffreund besucht. = I vistited my penpal last year.
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