WUL: Stem Changing Verbs - fahren und sprechen

Stem Changing Verbs - fahren und sprechen

• fahren - to go/to drive (by car, by boat, by train)
• sprechen - to speak

Now, we'll discuss stem vowel changes, a unique element to many German verbs.

Stem-changing verbs are conjugated much the same way as regular verbs, except there is a stem change in the du and er form conjugations in the present tense. There are 4 main types of stem changes. In this lesson we'll be learning two of them:

Stem Changing Verb - examples
a > ä	e > i
fahren - to drive	sprechen - to speak
ich fahre	ich spreche
du fährst	du sprichst
er fährt	es spricht
wir fahren	wir sprechen
ihr fahrt	ihr sprecht
sie fahren	sie sprechen

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