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Comparison of the Verbal Category of Tense In German and English

Table 2: All active forms of the verb “write“ in the third person singular, and their Czech and German equivalents

Grammar tense English Czech German
Future he will be writinghe will write on bude psáton napíše er wird schreiben
Future Perfect he will have been writinghe will have written on bude psáton bude mít napsáno er wird geschrieben haben
Present he is writinghe writes on píše er schreibt
Present perfect he has been writinghe has written on píšeon napsalon psalon napsalon psalon napsal er hat geschrieben
Past he was writinghe wrote er schrieb
Past perfect he had been writinghe had written er hatte geschrieben
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