thegeekestnerd

I don't really know what you are asking... but I will try to answer this in a way that may simplify your issue enough to solve it.

So just to go over the basics:

- "haben" is "to have"

-"perfekt" is "perfect"

I don't really know what you mean by "Schwimmen/Sterben/Trinken/Bleiben uses "to have" to form the "perfect".

German to me is really easy, because English is a Germanic language. I can look at "Schwimmen" and immediately think swimming. Due to it being German and having to use grammar, it is actually "swim", which is really close.

So:

-"Schwimmen" is "swim"

-"Sterben" is "die" or "to die"

-"Trinken" is "drink" or "to drink"... "trinkt" is "drinking"

-"Bleiben" is "stay" or "staying".... You can say "Bleiben sie dran" which is "Stay Tuned" like on a radio station.

This may help you, Good Luck!

caraphernaliaa

The answer would be trinken. In the past perfect tense, verbs where you are going somewhere (and some exceptions) use sein to form the tense and other verbs use haven to form it. I’m this question you could have :

Ich bin .... geschwommen , ich bin ....gestorben, ich bin .... geblieben and the only one that uses haben is ich habe..... getrunken.
Hope this helps :)