Skip to content
Lotte begutachtet den Fachartikel am Schreibtisch, neben sich eine Tasse Tee und einen Stapel Notizen. Lotte reviews the article at her desk, with a cup of tea and a pile of notes beside her.

verb · C1

begutachten

[bəˈɡuːtˌʔaxtn̩]

to review, to assess, to appraise

Learn This Word with Otti
Synonyms
beurteilen

My Note

With an account, you keep your own note to every word: a memory trick, an example of your own, where you heard it. Create an account

Already have an account? Log in.

Other Examples

Grammar

Present
er/sie/es begutachtet What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es begutachtete The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat begutachtet 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.

Indikativ
Person Präsens Präteritum Perfekt
ich begutachtebegutachtetehabe begutachtet
du begutachtestbegutachtetesthast begutachtet
er/sie/es begutachtetbegutachtetehat begutachtet
wir begutachtenbegutachtetenhaben begutachtet
ihr begutachtetbegutachtetethabt begutachtet
sie/Sie begutachtenbegutachtetenhaben begutachtet
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
Indikativ
Person Plusquamperfekt Futur I Futur II
ich hatte begutachtetwerde begutachtenwerde begutachtet haben
du hattest begutachtetwirst begutachtenwirst begutachtet haben
er/sie/es hatte begutachtetwird begutachtenwird begutachtet haben
wir hatten begutachtetwerden begutachtenwerden begutachtet haben
ihr hattet begutachtetwerdet begutachtenwerdet begutachtet haben
sie/Sie hatten begutachtetwerden begutachtenwerden begutachtet 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 begutachtete
du begutachtetest
er/sie/es begutachtete
wir begutachteten
ihr begutachtetet
sie/Sie begutachteten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde begutachten.

Person Imperativ
du begutachte!
ihr begutachtet!
Sie begutachten Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

be prefix gut root acht root en ending

be-
makes a verb take a direct object: zahlen (to pay) → die Rechnung bezahlen (to pay the bill).
-en
the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.

Word family

In Otti's situations: Lotte reviews a scientific article

Other Dictionaries

The dictionary opens here from its own site, which then sees your IP address. Nothing loads before you choose one.

Learn these words with Otti

A few minutes a day; Otti brings each word back right before you would forget it.