| Language notes | | ich habe es umgebaut |
| | Ich habe es umgebaut.
I have rebuilt it.
Es hat mich zurück gezogen.
It has attracted me back.
Was hat die Privatisierung Ihres Unternehmens geändert?
What has privatisation changed for your business?
Das hat zu einer Verschlechterung geführt.
That has led to a deterioration.
Wir haben die Kameradschaft sehr gepflegt.
We have encouraged (lit. nurtured) a sense of camaraderie.
Wir haben in neue Technologien investiert.
We have invested in new technology.
When you want to talk about something you've done or something that has happened, ie. events in the past, in most cases you need to use haben - 'to have' and the past participle of the verb, ie. umgebaut, investiert, as shown in the examples above. This is called the Perfekt tense.
Note that:
the past participle is placed at the end of the sentence.
in Southern Germany, German speaking Switzerland and Austria there is a tendency to use the Perfekt tense for all past actions rather than the alternative Imperfekt.
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