Frida pitcht ihre Idee vor drei Investoren. Frida pitches her idea to three investors.

verb · C1

pitchen

[ˈpɪt͡ʃn̩]

to pitch

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Ich pitche morgen zum ersten Mal und habe jetzt schon Lampenfieber.

I'm pitching for the first time tomorrow and already have stage fright.

The tinted words form a set phrase: Lampenfieber haben
Pitchst du lieber frei oder mit Folien?

Do you prefer to pitch without notes or with slides?
Wir haben schon dreimal gepitcht, bevor endlich jemand angebissen hat.

We had pitched three times before someone finally took the bait.
Ihr pitcht als Team, also teilt euch die fünf Minuten gut ein.

You're pitching as a team, so divide the five minutes well.
Am Demo-Tag pitchen zwölf Teams nacheinander vor einer Jury.

On demo day, twelve teams pitch one after another in front of a jury.

Grammar

Present: er/sie/es pitcht What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum): er/sie/es pitchte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt): er/sie/es hat gepitcht 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	pitche	pitchte	habe gepitcht
du	pitchst	pitchtest	hast gepitcht
er/sie/es	pitcht	pitchte	hat gepitcht
wir	pitchen	pitchten	haben gepitcht
ihr	pitcht	pitchtet	habt gepitcht
sie/Sie	pitchen	pitchten	haben gepitcht

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 gepitcht	werde pitchen	werde gepitcht haben
du	hattest gepitcht	wirst pitchen	wirst gepitcht haben
er/sie/es	hatte gepitcht	wird pitchen	wird gepitcht haben
wir	hatten gepitcht	werden pitchen	werden gepitcht haben
ihr	hattet gepitcht	werdet pitchen	werdet gepitcht haben
sie/Sie	hatten gepitcht	werden pitchen	werden gepitcht 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.

How the Word Is Built

pitch root en ending

-en: the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.

Word family

der Pitch

In Otti's situations: Frida pitches an idea to investors

das Alleinstellungsmerkmal die Beteiligung den Nerv der Zeit treffen das Geschäftsmodell der Gründer die Gründerin innovativ investieren die Investition der Investor die Investorin das Lastenrad

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