Strong vs Weak Verbs

• This summary is a review you will see again later that was actually written for students who have completed all of first year German.  In particular, it mentions the one-word "Simple Past" tense, which we've been calling the "Narrative Past" and which you've seen in Janosch. As mentioned in the lecture, we will cover the Narrative past, which is used to describe past events in formal, written contexts, in German 102, so you can ignore it for now. But you need to know that in the examples on this "Strong vs Weak Verbs" page, three forms are listed for each verb (e.g. "sagen, sagte, gesagt" or "gehen, ging, gegangen").  The first form is the infinitive of the verb, the second form is the Narrative Past (or Simple Past) form of the verb, which you can ignore for now, and the third form is the past participle, which is what we're interested in in this chapter.

Finding Past Participles of Verbs in the Book or in a Dictionary