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The regular verbs gehen, machen and trinken
On the previous page, you probably saw that Mark and Theo used some verbs that are not familiar to
you at this point. Those were in particular:
gehen (to go)
machen (to do/to make)
trinken (to drink)
mögen/möchten (to like/would like)
essen (to eat)
Three of these verbs are regular, namely the first three: 'gehen', 'machen',
and 'trinken'. The other verbs are irregular and will be dealt with later in this lesson and
in lesson 6.
You might have noticed so far that the infinitive
- the basic form of a verb - in German usually ends in 'en'. As a matter of fact, this is true for ~99% of all
German verbs.
You also learned in the previous lesson (the verb 'kommen' (to come)) that the verb forms for 'wir' (we) and 'sie'
(they) end in 'en' as well and are thus identical to the infinitive.
| Wir kommen aus der Schweiz. | We come from Switzerland. | | Sie kommen aus Österreich. | They come from Austria. |
Now let's have a look at the complete conjugations of the three new regular verbs 'gehen', 'machen' and 'trinken'.
To conjugate a regular verb in German, cut the ending '-en' from the infinitive and instead add the correct ending
for the used pronoun or noun.
 gehen (to go)
| Person | | Singular | | Plural |
| 1st | | ich gehe | | wir gehen | | 2nd | | du gehst | | ihr geht | | 3rd | | es/sie/es geht | | sie gehen |
machen (to make/to do)
| Person | | Singular | | Plural |
| 1st | | ich mache | | wir machen | | 2nd | | du machst | | ihr macht | | 3rd | | er/sie/es macht | | sie machen |
trinken (to drink)
| Person | | Singular | | Plural |
| 1st | | ich trinke | | wir trinken | | 2nd | | du trinkst | | ihr trinkt | | 3rd | | er/sie/es trinkt | | sie trinken |
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Lesson 3
