3 Parallel German Perfect Tense and Infinitive Clause
Katherine Lin
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Present Perfect Tense can be used to focus on the result of the action, even though it is often translated as simple present or past tense in English. For verbs of movement, verbs expressing a change of state, and a few other verbs need “SEIN”, not “HABEN” as helping verb to form future tense. Using infinitive clauses with um…. zu, we can express the goal or purpose of an action. If we use um zu, “um” is placed at the beginning of the infinitive clause. Usually the infinitive clause is placed at the end of the sentence, however, sometimes it is placed in the front to be the subject of the sentence. Certain verbs adjectives, adverbs, and nouns are often use with an infinitive clause.