Free-Time Activities: Vocabulary and the Perfect Tense
Learn German words for hobbies, sport and music, then use the perfect tense to say what you did in your free time.
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Free time in German 🎮
Free time covers hobbies, sport, games, music and films. This module starts with useful vocabulary, then moves into the **perfect tense** so you can say what you did.
Key free-time words 🔑
Learn German nouns with their capital letters and verbs in the infinitive.
Now or yesterday? ⚖️
Compare a present-tense hobby with the perfect tense.
Match the hobby word 🔗
- das Buch
- der Film
- die Musik
- Fußball
- book
- film
- music
- football
Which is music? 🎯
Which German word means music?
- die Musik
- der Film
- das Buch
- das Spiel
The perfect tense 💡
The perfect tense is one way to say what happened in the past. For many regular German verbs, use **haben** plus a past participle: ich habe gespielt. With movement verbs such as schwimmen, German often uses **sein**: ich bin geschwommen.
Match the past tense chunks 🔀
- ich habe gespielt
- ich habe gelesen
- ich habe getanzt
- ich bin geschwommen
- I played
- I read
- I danced
- I swam
Correct perfect tense ✅
Select the TWO correct past-tense phrases.
- ich habe Fußball gespielt
- ich habe ein Buch gelesen
- ich gespielt habe Fußball
- ich habe Fußball spielen
Build a past sentence 🪜
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Complete the hobby sentences 🧩
The German for book is _____. To say I played, write ich habe _____. To say I read, write ich habe _____. To say I swam, write ich _____ geschwommen.
Spot the free-time words 🖍️
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I swam 📝
Which sentence means: I swam?
- ich bin geschwommen
- ich habe geschwommen
- ich schwimme
- ich bin schwimmen
Choose the tense 🧭
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Your free time ✍️
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