German GCSE
Auxiliary Verb
What Auxiliary Verb means in German GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Auxiliary Verb
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A 'helping' verb used to form compound tenses. In German, 'haben' and 'sein' are used for the Perfect tense, and 'werden' for the Future tense.
A 'helping' verb used to form compound tenses. In German, 'haben' or 'sein' for the perfect tense, and 'werden' for the future tense.
A 'helping' verb used to form compound tenses. In German, 'haben' and 'sein' are the auxiliary verbs used to form the perfect tense.
A 'helping' verb used to form a tense. In German, 'haben' and 'sein' are the auxiliaries for the perfect tense.
A 'helping' verb used alongside a main verb to form different tenses (e.g., haben/sein in the perfect tense).
A 'helping verb' used to form tenses. In German, 'haben' and 'sein' are used for the perfect tense.
Topics that use Auxiliary Verb
- Theme 3: Current and future study and employment (AQA GCSE)
- Themes (AQA GCSE)
- Thematic Context: Lifestyle and wellbeing (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Thematic Context: My personal world (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Vocabulary: Irregular inflected verb forms (Foundation and Higher) (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Vocabulary: Verbs (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Past Participle
- Reflexive Verb
- Cognate
- Modal Verb
- Subordinating Conjunction
- Conjugation
- Inversion
- Subordinate Clause
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