Tenses and moods
das Präsens
In English: present tense
The tense for what is happening now, what happens regularly, and general facts. With a time expression it is also the normal way to talk about the future, and with seit it describes something that started in the past and still continues.
Example: Morgen fahre ich nach Wien. (I am going to Vienna tomorrow.)
Related lessons
- The present tense of regular verbs (A1)
- The present tense of stem-changing verbs: fahren, sehen, nehmen (A1)
- Sein and haben in the present tense (A1)