Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- A simple guide to the parts of speech -- 1 Verbs -- 1.1 Talking about what you do -- 1.1.1 What is the infinitive? -- 1.1.2 What is the stem of a verb? -- 1.1.3 The 'persons' of the verb -- 1.1.4 Weak verbs (regular verbs) -- 1.1.5 Strong verbs (irregular verbs) -- 1.1.6 Auxiliary verbs: sein - to be, haben - to have -- 1.2 Reflexive, separable and modal verbs -- 1.2.1 Reflexive verbs -- 1.2.2 Separable and inseparable verbs -- 1.2.3 Modal verbs -- 1.2.4 Fast track: verbs -- 1.3 The present tense -- 1.3.1 Talking about yourself: ich -- 1.3.2 Talking to someone younger or someone you know well: du -- 1.3.3 Talking about someone or something else: er/sie/es -- 1.3.4 Talking about yourself and someone else: wir -- 1.3.5 Talking to someone else: Sie (you) -- 1.3.6 Talking to someone else: ihr (you) -- 1.3.7 Talking to more than one person: Sie (you) -- 1.3.8 Talking about other people and things: sie (they) -- 1.3.9 Fast track: present tense -- 1.4 The past tenses -- 1.4.1 The perfect tense -- 1.4.2 Formation of the perfect tense -- 1.4.3 The auxiliary verbs: haben and sein -- 1.4.4 Verbs with haben and sein -- 1.4.5 Sentences with haben and sein -- 1.4.6 How to form the past participle -- 1.4.7 The past participle of strong verbs -- 1.4.8 The past tense and word order -- 1.4.9 Asking a question about the past -- 1.4.10 The simple past tense/imperfect tense -- 1.4.11 Formation of the simple past or imperfect tense -- 1.4.12 The use of modal verbs in the past tense -- 1.4.13 Fast track: past tense -- 1.5 Negatives, interrogatives and imperatives -- 1.5.1 Negatives: how to say what you do or don't want using nicht -- 1.5.2 Negatives: with kein and keine, etc. -- 1.5.3 Interrogatives: asking questions -- 1.5.4 Imperatives: giving orders, directions or instructions