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Backst du auch Plätzchen für Weihnachten?
Are you baking Christmas biscuits too?
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es backt What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es backte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat gebacken 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 | backe | backte | habe gebacken |
| du | backst | backtest | hast gebacken |
| er/sie/es | backt | backte | hat gebacken |
| wir | backen | backten | haben gebacken |
| ihr | backt | backtet | habt gebacken |
| sie/Sie | backen | backten | haben gebacken |
- 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 gebacken | werde backen | werde gebacken haben |
| du | hattest gebacken | wirst backen | wirst gebacken haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte gebacken | wird backen | wird gebacken haben |
| wir | hatten gebacken | werden backen | werden gebacken haben |
| ihr | hattet gebacken | werdet backen | werdet gebacken haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten gebacken | werden backen | werden gebacken 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 | backte |
| du | backtest |
| er/sie/es | backte |
| wir | backten |
| ihr | backtet |
| sie/Sie | backten |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde backen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | back! |
| ihr | backt! |
| Sie | backen Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
back root en ending
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Bruno bakes a cake
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