| Language notes | | ich bin geboren |
| | Ich bin hier geboren.
I was born here.
Das ist mir gelungen.
I have managed that.
When you want to talk about something you've done or something that has happened, ie events in the past, in some cases you need to use sein - 'to be', plus the past participle, ie geboren to form the Perfekt tense.
This is true for a specific number of common verbs which express either a change of place or a change of state, for example kommen, gehen, fahren, fliegen... Other verbs use haben - 'to have' - to form the Perfekt tense.
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