schweigen: haben or sein? Perfect tense: hat geschwiegen
In English: to be silent, remain silent · A2
The answer
In the Perfekt, schweigen takes: haben
- Perfekt auxiliary
- haben
- Partizip II
- geschwiegen
- Perfekt
- hat geschwiegen
Wortino stores one auxiliary per verb; some verbs can take both depending on the meaning.
Perfekt example
Ich habe lange geschwiegen.
I have been silent for a long time.
Tatoeba · PeterR · CC BY 2.0 FREr hat eine ganze Weile geschwiegen.
He was silent for quite a while.
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