The perfect tense is used to say what someone did, or has done, in the past. The perfect tense: How to talk about the past in German If you want to talk about what has happened in the past you’re ...

You use the perfect tense when, in English, you would say that something has happened. So, if you wanted to say: ‘You have been to the hairdresser,' 'she has eaten all the biscuits’ or anything else ...