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-en
—for examples, consider these verbs you have already learned: 
geh
en
('go'), 
hab
en
('have'), and 
studier
en
('study'). In order to "build" the different verb forms (that is, conjugate a verb), first cut off 
the '-en' ending from the infinitive. Then append a new ending according to the grammatical person. 
For 
regular verbs
it works essentially as follows:
pronoun verb
in English:
ich
geh
e
I
go
du
geh
st
you
go
er/sie/es geh
t
he/she/it go
es
wir
geh
en
we
go
ihr
geh
t
you (pl.) go
sie
geh
en
they
go
As you see in this example using the verb 
gehen
, the singular 1st person ends with 
-e
, the 2nd person 
with 
-st
and 3rd person (no matter what gender) ends with 
-t
. As for the plural forms, note that 1st and 
3rd person in plural 
number
(see 
Grammatik 1-3
) are built the same way as the infinitive. Again note 
that, in English, only the verb form for the 3rd person singular is "unique". An easy way to remeber the 
regular verb endings is the following mnemonic "
E
lephants 
st
anding 
t
ogether 
en
joy 
t
rumpeting 
en
dlessly".
Seems simple enough. However, realize we are discussing here only the regular verb forms in the 
present tense
(
Präsens
). You will learn quite soon that, unfortunaly, there are many exceptions from 
these simple rules. An important one is the