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Other Examples
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Warum hupt ihr eigentlich, wenn eure Mannschaft gewinnt?
Why do you actually honk when your team wins?
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Im Stau hupen die Autofahrer, obwohl das gar nichts bringt.
In the traffic jam the drivers honk, although it doesn't help at all.
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es hupt What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es hupte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat gehupt 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 | hupe | hupte | habe gehupt |
| du | hupst | huptest | hast gehupt |
| er/sie/es | hupt | hupte | hat gehupt |
| wir | hupen | hupten | haben gehupt |
| ihr | hupt | huptet | habt gehupt |
| sie/Sie | hupen | hupten | haben gehupt |
- 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 gehupt | werde hupen | werde gehupt haben |
| du | hattest gehupt | wirst hupen | wirst gehupt haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte gehupt | wird hupen | wird gehupt haben |
| wir | hatten gehupt | werden hupen | werden gehupt haben |
| ihr | hattet gehupt | werdet hupen | werdet gehupt haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten gehupt | werden hupen | werden gehupt 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 | hupte |
| du | huptest |
| er/sie/es | hupte |
| wir | hupten |
| ihr | huptet |
| sie/Sie | hupten |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde hupen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | hup! |
| ihr | hupt! |
| Sie | hupen Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
hup root en ending
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Frida and the traffic in Berlin
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