Online exercise to practice the conjugation of frequently used German verbs in the simple past tense.
There are two kinds of German verbs: regular and irregular. Regular verbs follow a basic conjugation pattern while conjugation of irregular verbs involves changing the stem of the verb before following a different pattern.
For example, the regular verb "spielen" means "to play". Conjugating it in the past tense (also called weak past) means replacing the -en with -te, -ten, -test or -tet: ich spielte, du spieltest, er/sie/es spielte, wir spielten, ihr spieltet, sie spielten.
Irregular German verbs do not follow this pattern, such as "kommen" (to come): Ich kam, du kamst, er/sie/es kam, wir kamen, ihr kamt, sie kamen. Notice that for conjugation of "kommen", the root of the word is changed before applying appropriate endings.
