Talking about yesterday
Über gestern sprechen
Use basic spoken Perfekt forms to say what you did yesterday.
Spoken German commonly uses the Perfekt for past events. It usually combines haben or sein with a past participle: Ich habe gearbeitet. Ich bin gefahren.
Ich habe gearbeitet.
I worked.
Ich habe Deutsch gelernt.
I learned German.
Ich habe Kaffee getrunken.
I drank coffee.
Ich bin nach Hause gegangen.
I went home.
Ich bin mit dem Bus gefahren.
I travelled by bus.
Was hast du gemacht?
What did you do?
Gestern habe ich frei gehabt.
Yesterday I had the day off.
Conjugated haben/sein + participle at the end. Most activities here use haben; movement or change of place often uses sein.
Use Perfekt to tell colleagues, friends, or family what you did, ate, drank, learned, or how you travelled.
After “habe,” use the participle “gelernt,” not the infinitive “lernen.”
The helper carries the tense; the participle closes the sentence: Ich habe Deutsch gelernt.
Say four true things about yesterday, including one movement verb with sein.