Babbel is currently confusing me with past perfect. If the verb doesn't imply movement, you use the conjugated form of haben; if there is movement or something you can't control, sein
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Exactly. If you have to think too hard to say "is there movement? maybe sometimes?" it probably doesn't count - as long as you've learnt those non-moving verbs that take sein anyway!
Personally I use dict.cc which also has a dictionary app for mobiles which works without an internet connection - notice next to the results there's a number which indicates how common they are so e.g. carrot: https://www.dict.cc/?s=carrot there's one result with a really high number (Karotten) and another with a pretty high number (Möhre) so both of those are likely to be good general-purpose translations. The rest are all small numbers, so they're valid translations but they might be regional or they might only be used in niche situations (e.g. some of those mean carrot only in the idiomatic sense of "carrot and stick", like a reward, not "orange thing you'd have in a meal").
Personally I use dict.cc which also has a dictionary app for mobiles which works without an internet connection - notice next to the results there's a number which indicates how common they are so e.g. carrot:
https://www.dict.cc/?s=carrot
there's one result with a really high number (Karotten) and another with a pretty high number (Möhre) so both of those are likely to be good general-purpose translations. The rest are all small numbers, so they're valid translations but they might be regional or they might only be used in niche situations (e.g. some of those mean carrot only in the idiomatic sense of "carrot and stick", like a reward, not "orange thing you'd have in a meal").
For verb conjugations I use this site: https://www.cactus2000.de/deutsch/index_en.php
It's not very pretty but it's really comprehensive.
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