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GERM 1310 Horst Lange Lesson 2-3 Conjugation of the verb sein (= to be) in the Present Tense Without a doubt, the verbs to be and to have are the most commonly used words both in English and German, where they are known as sein and haben. The conjugation is highly irregular in both languages.1 In English there is nothing quite like: I am, you are, he is. Here is the conjugation for sein in German: ich du er/sie/es wir ihr sie/Sie bin bist ist sind seid sind What’s really a bummer is that the infinitive of the verb, namely sein (to be), does not look much like any of these forms at all (ihr seid comes closest). And the identical looking word sein can too mean his. Das ist sein Auto. 1 This is his car. Maybe there is a rule here somewhere: the more common a word is, the more it tends to be irregular.
