How many tenses are in the German language?

How many tenses exists in danish language?

• I want to start learning danish language and I wonder whether it is hard or not.

• Answer:

  "There are four tenses in Danish: 1. Present tense It is formed by adding -r to the infinitive form of a verb. Note, that the modal verbs break this -r rule. Examples: Jeg spiser. (I eat, I am eating.) Vi sover. (We sleep, We are sleeping.) 2. Present[past] perfect tense It is formed by using the auxiliary verb har/er[havde/var] followed by the past participle (the base form of a verb + -(e)t). Examples: Jeg har spist det. (I have eaten it.) Jeg havde spist det. (I had eaten it.) Jeg har været her. (I've been here.) Jeg havde været der. (I'd been there.) Jeg er rejst/gået. (I've travelled/walked.) Jeg var rejst/gået. (I'd travelled/walked.) 3. Past tense It is formed by adding -ede/-te to the basic form of a verb. Examples: Jeg købte øl. (I bought beer.) Ringede du til mig? (Did you call me?) 4. Future tense It is formed by using the verb vil/skal followed by an infinitive. Examples: Jeg vil rejse til Polen. (I will traver to Poland.) Du skal få det i morgen. (You shall get it tomorrow.)" "Danish verbs do not conjugate (change their ending) in the different persons." "The imperative is formed by substracting the final -e from the infinitive form: spis! (eat!), skriv! (write!)." http://www.geocities.com/tsca.geo/dansk/dkverbs.html "Like in other Germanic languages, the conjugation of verb tenses is divided into two groups: The first group, the so-called weak verbs, indicates the past tense by adding the suffixes -ede or -te. The second, called strong verbs, forms the past tense with a zero ending and, in most cases, certain vowel changes." "The future tense is formed with the modals verbs vil or skal and the infinitive, e.g. tror du, det vil regne, "do you think it's going to rain", vi skal nok komme igen i morgen, "we'll come again tomorrow". Often the present tense is also used as future, only with the addition of a time specification i morgen køber han en bil, "tomorrow he'll buy a car"." "In the perfect tense, the word har ("have, has") is placed before a the past participle: han har købt en bil, "he has bought a car". In certain words implying a movement, however, er ("am, are, is") is used instead: han er gået sin vej, "he has gone" (like German er ist gegangen or French il est allé). In such cases har is used for the activity, while er is used if the result is what is interesting. Han har rejst meget, "he has traveled a lot". Han er rejst, "he is gone", he is not here anymore." "Similarly, the pluperfect tense is formed with havde or var: han havde købt en bil, han var gået sin vej. NB. The perfect tense is used in many cases where English would have a simple preterite." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_grammar#Tenses