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Bruno sponsert die Medaillen und hängt jedem Kind persönlich eine um den Hals. Bruno sponsors the medals and personally hangs one around every child's neck.

verb · C1

sponsern

[ˈʃpɔnzɐn]

to sponsor

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Grammar

Present
er/sie/es sponsert What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es sponserte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat gesponsert 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 sponseresponsertehabe gesponsert
du sponserstsponsertesthast gesponsert
er/sie/es sponsertsponsertehat gesponsert
wir sponsernsponsertenhaben gesponsert
ihr sponsertsponsertethabt gesponsert
sie/Sie sponsernsponsertenhaben gesponsert
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 gesponsertwerde sponsernwerde gesponsert haben
du hattest gesponsertwirst sponsernwirst gesponsert haben
er/sie/es hatte gesponsertwird sponsernwird gesponsert haben
wir hatten gesponsertwerden sponsernwerden gesponsert haben
ihr hattet gesponsertwerdet sponsernwerdet gesponsert haben
sie/Sie hatten gesponsertwerden sponsernwerden gesponsert 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 sponserte
du sponsertest
er/sie/es sponserte
wir sponserten
ihr sponsertet
sie/Sie sponserten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

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

Person Imperativ
du sponsere!
ihr sponsert!
Sie sponsern Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

sponser root n ending

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

Word family

der Sponsordie Sponsorindas Sponsoring

In Otti's situations: The friends organise a charity run

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