Whether you’re telling a friend what you did yesterday, describing a recent trip, or sharing your weekend plans, you’ll likely use the Perfect Tense far more than the simple past in everyday conversation.

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to form the perfect tense using the auxiliary verbs haben or sein and the past participle (Participle II) of the main verb. We’ll cover the rules for choosing between haben and sein, how to build past participles—especially for regular, irregular, and separable verbs—and how to place everything correctly in a sentence. By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to talk confidently about past events like a native speaker. Let's get started!