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Wie behandelst du deine Kopfschmerzen ohne Tabletten?
How do you treat your headaches without pills?
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es behandelt What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es behandelte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat behandelt 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 | behandle | behandelte | habe behandelt |
| du | behandelst | behandeltest | hast behandelt |
| er/sie/es | behandelt | behandelte | hat behandelt |
| wir | behandeln | behandelten | haben behandelt |
| ihr | behandelt | behandeltet | habt behandelt |
| sie/Sie | behandeln | behandelten | haben behandelt |
- 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 behandelt | werde behandeln | werde behandelt haben |
| du | hattest behandelt | wirst behandeln | wirst behandelt haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte behandelt | wird behandeln | wird behandelt haben |
| wir | hatten behandelt | werden behandeln | werden behandelt haben |
| ihr | hattet behandelt | werdet behandeln | werdet behandelt haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten behandelt | werden behandeln | werden behandelt 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 | behandelte |
| du | behandeltest |
| er/sie/es | behandelte |
| wir | behandelten |
| ihr | behandeltet |
| sie/Sie | behandelten |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde behandeln.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | behandle! |
| ihr | behandelt! |
| Sie | behandeln Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
be prefix handel root n ending
- be-
- makes a verb take a direct object: zahlen (to pay) → die Rechnung bezahlen (to pay the bill).
- -n
- the ending of the infinitive after -el or -er: wandern, sammeln.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Otti goes to a specialist
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