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Wie kurbelst du deine Kreativität an, wenn dir nichts einfällt?
How do you get your creativity going when you can't think of anything?
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es kurbelt an What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es kurbelte an The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat angekurbelt 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 | kurble an | kurbelte an | habe angekurbelt |
| du | kurbelst an | kurbeltest an | hast angekurbelt |
| er/sie/es | kurbelt an | kurbelte an | hat angekurbelt |
| wir | kurbeln an | kurbelten an | haben angekurbelt |
| ihr | kurbelt an | kurbeltet an | habt angekurbelt |
| sie/Sie | kurbeln an | kurbelten an | haben angekurbelt |
- 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 angekurbelt | werde ankurbeln | werde angekurbelt haben |
| du | hattest angekurbelt | wirst ankurbeln | wirst angekurbelt haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte angekurbelt | wird ankurbeln | wird angekurbelt haben |
| wir | hatten angekurbelt | werden ankurbeln | werden angekurbelt haben |
| ihr | hattet angekurbelt | werdet ankurbeln | werdet angekurbelt haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten angekurbelt | werden ankurbeln | werden angekurbelt 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 | kurbelte an |
| du | kurbeltest an |
| er/sie/es | kurbelte an |
| wir | kurbelten an |
| ihr | kurbeltet an |
| sie/Sie | kurbelten 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 ankurbeln.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | kurble an! |
| ihr | kurbelt an! |
| Sie | kurbeln Sie an! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
an prefix kurbel root n ending
- an-
- to, at, the start of something: ankommen (to arrive), anrufen (to call). Separable: Ich rufe dich an.
- -n
- the ending of the infinitive after -el or -er: wandern, sammeln.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Bruno's restaurant turns one
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