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Lotte benotet am Wochenende zwanzig Hausarbeiten und trinkt dabei literweise Tee. At the weekend Lotte grades twenty term papers, drinking litres of tea as she goes.

verb · C1

benoten

[bəˈnoːtn̩]

to grade, to mark

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Grammar

Present
er/sie/es benotet What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es benotete The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat benotet 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 benotebenotetehabe benotet
du benotestbenotetesthast benotet
er/sie/es benotetbenotetehat benotet
wir benotenbenotetenhaben benotet
ihr benotetbenotetethabt benotet
sie/Sie benotenbenotetenhaben benotet
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 benotetwerde benotenwerde benotet haben
du hattest benotetwirst benotenwirst benotet haben
er/sie/es hatte benotetwird benotenwird benotet haben
wir hatten benotetwerden benotenwerden benotet haben
ihr hattet benotetwerdet benotenwerdet benotet haben
sie/Sie hatten benotetwerden benotenwerden benotet 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 benotete
du benotetest
er/sie/es benotete
wir benoteten
ihr benotetet
sie/Sie benoteten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

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

Person Imperativ
du benote!
ihr benotet!
Sie benoten Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

be prefix not 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.

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In Otti's situations: Lotte teaches a seminar

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