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Language notes
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das
Betriebsklima war gut |
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Das Betriebsklima
war gut.
ÌýThe company
atmosphere was good.
Wir waren alle von
der näheren Umgebung.
ÌýWe all came (lit. were)
from the surrounding area.
Wir kannten
einander.
ÌýWe knew each
other.
Wir hatten jedes
Jahr einen Betriebsausflug.
ÌýEvery year we
went on (lit. had) a company outing.
Wir hatten
Weihnachtsfeiern.
ÌýWe had a
Christmas do.
Sie hatten
früher rund zweieinhalbtausend Mitarbeitern hier.
ÌýYou used to
have two and a half thousand workers here.
When you want to
talk about how things were or used to be in the past but no longer
are, ie the state of things in the past, you need the Imperfekt tense as shown in the examples above.
Note that:
in Southern Germany, German speaking Switzerland and Austria there is a tendency
to use the Perfekt tense for all
past actions, whether they describe events in the past or the state of things
in the past, rather than the Imperfekt
tense.
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