Editing Grammatical aspect (section)

==== German vernacular and colloquial ====
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Although [[Standard German]] does not have aspects, many [[Upper German]] and all [[West Central German]] dialects,{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} and some more vernacular forms of German do make an aspectual distinction which partly corresponds with the English [[continuous aspect|continuous form]]: alongside the standard present tense ''Ich esse'' ('I eat') and past ''Ich aß'' ('I ate') there is the form ''Ich bin/war am essen/Essen'' ('I am/was at the eating'; capitalization varies). This is formed by the conjugated auxiliary verb ''sein'' ("to be") followed by the preposition and article ''am'' (=''an dem'') and the infinitive, which German uses in many constructions as a verbal noun.

In the Tyrolean and other Bavarian regiolect the prefix *da can be found, which form perfective aspects. "I hu's gleant" (Ich habe es gelernt = I learnt it) vs. "I hu's daleant" (*Ich habe es DAlernt = I succeeded in learning).{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}