Study Resource: Conjugations of ‘liegen/legen,’ ‘sitzen/setzen,’ ‘stehen/stellen,’ and ‘hängen’

The charts below give the conjugations of several pairs of related German verbs that can easily be confused with each other:

• liegen(to lie) vs. legen(to put)

• sitzen(to sit) vs. setzen(to sit down)

• stehen(to stand) vs. stellen(to put)

• hängen(to hang) vs. hängen(to hang up)

In each pair, the first verb is stative, used for when someone or something remains in a position where it is already, while the second is dynamic, used to describe an action that moves someone or something from one place to another.

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