The perfect tense is used to say what someone did, or has done, in the past. The perfect tense: How to talk about the past in German If you want to talk about what has happened in the past you’re ...

I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...