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verb · A2

verbessern

[fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsɐn]

to improve, to correct

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Synonyms
korrigieren

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Other Examples

  • Ich will meine Aussprache verbessern.

    I want to improve my pronunciation.

  • Wie verbesserst du deinen Wortschatz?

    How do you improve your vocabulary?

  • Mit Frau Hilde verbessern wir jeden Abend unsere Fehler.

    With Frau Hilde we correct our mistakes every evening.

  • Habt ihr eure Noten verbessert?

    Have you improved your marks?

  • Lotte und Bruno verbessern zusammen ihre Texte.

    Lotte and Bruno correct their texts together.

Grammar

Present
er/sie/es verbessert What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es verbesserte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat verbessert 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 verbessereverbessertehabe verbessert
du verbesserstverbessertesthast verbessert
er/sie/es verbessertverbessertehat verbessert
wir verbessernverbessertenhaben verbessert
ihr verbessertverbessertethabt verbessert
sie/Sie verbessernverbessertenhaben verbessert
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 verbessertwerde verbessernwerde verbessert haben
du hattest verbessertwirst verbessernwirst verbessert haben
er/sie/es hatte verbessertwird verbessernwird verbessert haben
wir hatten verbessertwerden verbessernwerden verbessert haben
ihr hattet verbessertwerdet verbessernwerdet verbessert haben
sie/Sie hatten verbessertwerden verbessernwerden verbessert 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 verbesserte
du verbessertest
er/sie/es verbesserte
wir verbesserten
ihr verbessertet
sie/Sie verbesserten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

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

Person Imperativ
du verbessere!
ihr verbessert!
Sie verbessern Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

ver prefix besser root n ending

ver-
often a change, a loss or "away": vermieten (to rent out), verlieren (to lose), sich verlaufen (to get lost).
-n
the ending of the infinitive after -el or -er: wandern, sammeln.

Word family

besserdie Verbesserung

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