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Strong verbs in the simple past.

A strong verb undergoes a stem change in the simple past. The tense marker -te is not added to a strong verb in the simple past tense.

sprechen - ich sprach, du sprachst, er/es/sie sprach, wir sprachen, ihr spracht, sie sprachen, Sie sprachen

In the simple past all forms except first and third persons singular add verb endings to the simple past stem. The stem change cannot always be predicted, but the number of strong verbs in German is relatively small (compared to the thousands of weak verbs) (and "cannot always be predicted" probably doesn't mean "would have trouble guessing" for a person with language background) (she said humbly).

Lesen Sie die folgende Anekdote un setzen Sie alle fett gedruckten Verben ins Präteritum. Benutzen Sie die folgende Liste mit dem Prälteritum der Verben. Achtung! Es gibt hier schwache und starke Verben.

Heute gehe/ging ich in der Fußgängerzone einkaufen. Plötzlich steht/stand ein Mann vor mir, sieht/sah mir in die Augen und sagte: "Hallo, Stefan. Wie geht's denn?" "Na, gut, danke," antwortete ich und wusste nicht, was ich im Moment noch sagen sollte, denn ich wusste seinen Namen nicht. Er wollte, das wir zusammen essen gehen, empfiehlt/empfahl ein gutes Restaurant und wir gehen/gingen hin. Das Essen ist/war gut und wir trinken/tranken eine Flasche Wein dazu. Beim Essen spricht/sprach er über dies und das. Ich sage/sagte sehr wenig. "Du kennst mich nicht mehr," sagt/sagte er. "Doch," sage/sagte ich, aber es ist nicht wahr. Nach dem Essen sagt/sagte er "Ich rufe dich in einer Woche an. Vielleicht können wir uns wieder treffen." "Das wäre schön," antworte/antwortete ich. Ich gebe ihm die Hand und sage/sagte: "Also, mein Lieber, bis bald." Du, Ute, etwas verstehe ich nicht. Warum hat er immer Stefan zu mir gesagt? "Ja, das ist ja wirklich merkwürdig, Alexander," antwortet/antwortete Ute



Making an attempt to go to game tonight, for those of you following. Pest appointment happened, was pretty quick, did not require too much in the way of brainpower. I have no live pests, or, well, no live pests that would pose a danger. I have cobwebs with spiders in, many flies, and ants. But no termites or carpenter bees! Just the shells of them from where they were a while ago. So that's good.

Scanned in and sent stuff to Renovations Lady. Boy thinks he fixed computer by replacing the keyboard, I ... am actually gut-twistingly afraid to turn it on again because if it starts shutting down randomly again I really might burst out crying. But I did get up the courage and talked to the Aunt, and both got some help and in an amount where I am no longer freaking out about either taking too much or being too close to the edge. Something else good happened, I can't remember what.

Something else weird happened, Esai freaking Morales retweeted me blaming/crediting him for mine and Anna's need to learn Ancient Greek. Him and Sasha Roiz. Because of Caprica, and now I have all kinds of mollycobbles in my stomach. Also, I realized that part of why I actually care what Esai Morales thinks of me has to do with his work with Latino advocacy, which I never before thought was a thing I cared about. I don't really consider myself Latino. I don't really consider myself belonging to a particular race part of the spectrum between hispanic and white, which is probably a huge dose of class privilege from growing up in DC. But for some reason, this matters. What he thinks of me matters, for this specific reason. I'd unpick it more but I just don't have the energy.

Pizza, game, coding up the Leviathan which is almost fucking DONE. Oh my god you guys, this world-building exercise, I shit you not, has been a task. Next up, the character questionaire! But I have an awesome pic of a Leviathan on a Segway, courtesy of V, so that makes it better.