Past

In high school, I started learning German. In the classroom there was an inscription on the wall made of letters cut from paper and painted brown in color. The inscription looked like this:

“Wer die Fremdsprachen nicht lernt, der kennt nicht seine eigene”.

J.W. Goethe

I wondered what that meant, and I couldn’t wait to finally read it comprehension. It was only when we reworked the relative pronouns and the subordinate sentence that one day I entered the class and suddenly experienced miraculous enlightenment:
“Whoever does not learn foreign languages does not know his own.”
That’s simple. But the next day I realized that Yes, I know what these words say, but I have no idea why I don’t know my own language. How’s that yours? I felt like someone who would hear a bad prophecy from a Gypsy. I came across her trace in a variation of German
verbs: plusquamperfect time or “more than past” time.

I knew from primary school that there were three tenses: present, past, and future. But they’re here? How can there be a past. And why it’s not with us. And the Germans dug into the past somehow more than we did? It is known German technique. Cars. Do they also have a supernatural – I asked myself.