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How do I say in German, "I was" and "I have been?"? |
Travel Info I know "ich bin" is I am, but I am wondering about the past and the past participle. Travel Tips Its perfectly alright to translate both with: I war. Using the perfect grammar you can also translate I have been with Ich bin gewesen, but as a native German speaker I would not use this phrase in a conversation...sounds weird.. Others freetranslation.com will let you translate anything! http://www.freetranslation.com Ich war is I was and Ich bin gewesen is I have been Ich war I was Ich bin gewesen I have been That is not enough info---German has many phrases for the same thing, depending on how/what the context is. More info is needed. Tell the phrase in English, and it can be translated properly! Actually, "Ich war" and "Ich bin gewesen" mean the same thing... Though I've never really figured out how to PERFECTLY say "I have been", I'd say it depends on the context of the sentence you want to use. "Ich war" is the imperfect past tense of the word, typically imperfect past is only used in literature and other published works, but there are exceptions to what's acceptable in spoken language, and "war" is one of them. "Ich bin gewesen" is the typical form of spoken language, the perfect past, it's what you use when you're speaking. Another example would be "Ich bin gefahren", it still means, "I rode/drove", not, "I have been riding". |
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