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Other Examples
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Ich möchte eigenes Gemüse anbauen, damit ich weniger kaufen muss.
I'd like to grow my own vegetables so that I need to buy less.
The tinted words form a set phrase: Ich möchte …
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Habt ihr die Kartoffeln selbst angebaut?
Did you grow the potatoes yourselves?
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es baut an What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es baute an The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat angebaut The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".
Conjugation
The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.
| Person | Präsens | Präteritum | Perfekt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | baue an | baute an | habe angebaut |
| du | baust an | bautest an | hast angebaut |
| er/sie/es | baut an | baute an | hat angebaut |
| wir | bauen an | bauten an | haben angebaut |
| ihr | baut an | bautet an | habt angebaut |
| sie/Sie | bauen an | bauten an | haben angebaut |
- Präsens
- What happens now or usually; with a time word also the future.
- Präteritum
- The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfekt
- The past in conversation.
More Tenses and Moods
| Person | Plusquamperfekt | Futur I | Futur II |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | hatte angebaut | werde anbauen | werde angebaut haben |
| du | hattest angebaut | wirst anbauen | wirst angebaut haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte angebaut | wird anbauen | wird angebaut haben |
| wir | hatten angebaut | werden anbauen | werden angebaut haben |
| ihr | hattet angebaut | werdet anbauen | werdet angebaut haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten angebaut | werden anbauen | werden angebaut haben |
- Plusquamperfekt
- What had happened before another moment in the past.
- Futur I
- Plans, promises and guesses about the future; often the Präsens is enough.
- Futur II
- What will be finished by a moment in the future, or a guess about the past.
| Person | Konjunktiv II |
|---|---|
| ich | baute an |
| du | bautest an |
| er/sie/es | baute an |
| wir | bauten an |
| ihr | bautet an |
| sie/Sie | bauten an |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde anbauen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | bau an! |
| ihr | baut an! |
| Sie | bauen Sie an! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
an prefix bau root en ending
- an-
- to, at, the start of something: ankommen (to arrive), anrufen (to call). Separable: Ich rufe dich an.
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Lotte gets an allotment
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