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Frida klingelt nach Mitternacht bei den Nachbarn oben. After midnight, Frida rings the bell of the neighbours upstairs.

verb · B1

klingeln

[ˈklɪŋl̩n]

to ring the bell, to ring

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Grammar

Present
er/sie/es klingelt What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es klingelte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat geklingelt 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 klingleklingeltehabe geklingelt
du klingelstklingeltesthast geklingelt
er/sie/es klingeltklingeltehat geklingelt
wir klingelnklingeltenhaben geklingelt
ihr klingeltklingeltethabt geklingelt
sie/Sie klingelnklingeltenhaben geklingelt
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 geklingeltwerde klingelnwerde geklingelt haben
du hattest geklingeltwirst klingelnwirst geklingelt haben
er/sie/es hatte geklingeltwird klingelnwird geklingelt haben
wir hatten geklingeltwerden klingelnwerden geklingelt haben
ihr hattet geklingeltwerdet klingelnwerdet geklingelt haben
sie/Sie hatten geklingeltwerden klingelnwerden geklingelt 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 klingelte
du klingeltest
er/sie/es klingelte
wir klingelten
ihr klingeltet
sie/Sie klingelten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

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

Person Imperativ
du klingle!
ihr klingelt!
Sie klingeln Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

klingel root n ending

-n
the ending of the infinitive after -el or -er: wandern, sammeln.

Word family

die Klingelder Klingeltondas Klingelschild

In Otti's situations: Frida and the noisy neighbours

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