KS4 · German · Year 10
Englisch lernen: 'haben', present tense weak verbs, negation with nicht and kein
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Your learning goal
I can use present tense weak verbs, 'nicht' and 'kein' to talk about learning a language.
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I can use present tense weak verbs, 'nicht' and 'kein' to talk about learning a language.
Key learning points
- Nominative case is for nouns with sein, heißen and werden; accusative case is for object nouns with all other verbs.
- The verb 'haben' is irregular.
- Present tense weak verbs are formed like 'lernen'.
- 'Nicht' negates before the definite article (meaning 'not the'), adjectives, possessives, proper nouns and after verbs.
- For negation before nouns, 'kein' replaces the indefinite article to mean 'not a', 'no'.
Words to know
- nominative
- the case used for the subject of a sentence
- accusative
- the case used for the object of a sentence
- nicht
- the adverb 'not', which negates the definite article ‘the’
- kein
- the negative determiner 'not a', 'no', that replaces the indefinite article ‘a/an’ before nouns
Common mistakes
'Nicht' means 'not' when negating in all German sentences.
'Nicht' negates in many sentences, but 'kein' replaces the indefinite article 'a/an' to negate nouns. For example, 'I have no car', and 'I haven't got a car' are both 'Ich habe kein Auto' in German.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Give plentiful examples of negative sentences with 'nicht' or 'kein' in the classroom, and encourage pupils to create their own examples in regular classroom conversation and across other contexts.