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Grammar
- Present
- er/sie/es bucht um What happens now or usually.
- Simple past (Präteritum)
- er/sie/es buchte um The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
- Perfect (Perfekt)
- er/sie/es hat umgebucht 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.
| Person | Präsens | Präteritum | Perfekt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | buche um | buchte um | habe umgebucht |
| du | buchst um | buchtest um | hast umgebucht |
| er/sie/es | bucht um | buchte um | hat umgebucht |
| wir | buchen um | buchten um | haben umgebucht |
| ihr | bucht um | buchtet um | habt umgebucht |
| sie/Sie | buchen um | buchten um | haben umgebucht |
- 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 umgebucht | werde umbuchen | werde umgebucht haben |
| du | hattest umgebucht | wirst umbuchen | wirst umgebucht haben |
| er/sie/es | hatte umgebucht | wird umbuchen | wird umgebucht haben |
| wir | hatten umgebucht | werden umbuchen | werden umgebucht haben |
| ihr | hattet umgebucht | werdet umbuchen | werdet umgebucht haben |
| sie/Sie | hatten umgebucht | werden umbuchen | werden umgebucht 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 | buchte um |
| du | buchtest um |
| er/sie/es | buchte um |
| wir | buchten um |
| ihr | buchtet um |
| sie/Sie | buchten um |
- Konjunktiv II
- Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde umbuchen.
| Person | Imperativ |
|---|---|
| du | buch um! |
| ihr | bucht um! |
| Sie | buchen Sie um! |
- Imperativ
- Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.
How the Word Is Built
um prefix buch root en ending
- -en
- the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.
Word family
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