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Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es surft What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es surfte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat gesurft The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".
Phrases With This Word
- im Internet surfen to surf the internet
Conjugation
The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.
| Person | Präsens | Präteritum | Perfekt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | surfe | surfte | habe gesurft |
| du | surfst | surftest | hast gesurft |
| er/sie/es | surft | surfte | hat gesurft |
| wir | surfen | surften | haben gesurft |
| ihr | surft | surftet | habt gesurft |
| sie/Sie | surfen | surften | haben gesurft |
- 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 gesurft | werde surfen | werde gesurft haben |
| du | hattest gesurft | wirst surfen | wirst gesurft haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte gesurft | wird surfen | wird gesurft haben |
| wir | hatten gesurft | werden surfen | werden gesurft haben |
| ihr | hattet gesurft | werdet surfen | werdet gesurft haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten gesurft | werden surfen | werden gesurft 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 | surfte |
| du | surftest |
| er/sie/es | surfte |
| wir | surften |
| ihr | surftet |
| sie/Sie | surften |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde surfen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | surf! |
| ihr | surft! |
| Sie | surfen Sie! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
surf root en ending
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
In Otti's situations: Lotte and the internet
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