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"It has been raining all day." The present perfect continuous is used for actions that start in the past and continue or are still happening in the present. It is often indicated by "for"/"since" (= seit), "the whole day"/"all day" (= den ganzen Tag). It doesn't exist in German but is there often used like [...]

"They had talked to the teacher... ...before they went home." The past perfect is equivalent to the German "Plusquamperfekt". It is used to express and differ between older and younger actions so if there is an action and another action, which happened before, is supposed to be described, the older action has to be expressed

"They had not been talking for three days until she called him." The past perfect continuous describes an action in the past which lies ahead of a younger action in the past and is used to empathize the duration of the action. Typical indication words for the past perfect continuous can be "for/since" and "the

"They will have returned in a few minutes." The future perfect simple is equivalent to the German tense "Futur II" and describes actions which start in the present and will be completed at a certain point in the future. It can be indicated by "by then" (= bis dahin) for example. Formation: subject + auxiliary

Englisch Grammar - Past Simple "I watched TV last Sunday." "He was studying yesterday." The simple past is used for actions in the past that are already completed and happen regularly or singularly. It is used like the German tenses "Perfekt" or "Präteritum". Words/phrases that indicate the simple past could be for example "yesterday", "last