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Frida vermeidet einen Streit und schreibt erst einmal einen Zettel. Frida avoids a quarrel and writes a note first.

verb · B1

vermeiden

[fɛɐ̯ˈmaɪ̯dn̩]

to avoid

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Grammar

Present
er/sie/es vermeidet What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es vermied The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat vermieden 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 vermeidevermiedhabe vermieden
du vermeidestvermiedesthast vermieden
er/sie/es vermeidetvermiedhat vermieden
wir vermeidenvermiedenhaben vermieden
ihr vermeidetvermiedethabt vermieden
sie/Sie vermeidenvermiedenhaben vermieden
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 vermiedenwerde vermeidenwerde vermieden haben
du hattest vermiedenwirst vermeidenwirst vermieden haben
er/sie/es hatte vermiedenwird vermeidenwird vermieden haben
wir hatten vermiedenwerden vermeidenwerden vermieden haben
ihr hattet vermiedenwerdet vermeidenwerdet vermieden haben
sie/Sie hatten vermiedenwerden vermeidenwerden vermieden 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 vermiede
du vermiedest
er/sie/es vermiede
wir vermieden
ihr vermiedet
sie/Sie vermieden
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.
Person Imperativ
du vermeide!
ihr vermeidet!
Sie vermeiden Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

ver prefix meid root en ending

ver-
often a change, a loss or "away": vermieten (to rent out), verlieren (to lose), sich verlaufen (to get lost).
-en
the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.

Word family

unvermeidlichdie Vermeidung

In Otti's situations: Frida and the noisy neighbours

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