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Frida und Lotte schauen auf die Speisekarte.
Frida and Lotte look at the menu.
Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es schaut What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es schaute The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat geschaut The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".
Phrases With This Word
- über den Tellerrand schauen to think outside the box
Conjugation
The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.
| Person | Präsens | Präteritum | Perfekt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | schaue | schaute | habe geschaut |
| du | schaust | schautest | hast geschaut |
| er/sie/es | schaut | schaute | hat geschaut |
| wir | schauen | schauten | haben geschaut |
| ihr | schaut | schautet | habt geschaut |
| sie/Sie | schauen | schauten | haben geschaut |
- 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 geschaut | werde schauen | werde geschaut haben |
| du | hattest geschaut | wirst schauen | wirst geschaut haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte geschaut | wird schauen | wird geschaut haben |
| wir | hatten geschaut | werden schauen | werden geschaut haben |
| ihr | hattet geschaut | werdet schauen | werdet geschaut haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten geschaut | werden schauen | werden geschaut 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 | schaute |
| du | schautest |
| er/sie/es | schaute |
| wir | schauten |
| ihr | schautet |
| sie/Sie | schauten |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde schauen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | schau! |
| ihr | schaut! |
| Sie | schauen Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
schau root en ending
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
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