301 German verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses, alphabetically arranged

352 Pages·1981·38.4 MB·English

by  Henry Strutz

GERMAN VERBS
fully conjugated in all the tenses
by Henry Strutz
Principal Parts of Strong Verbs
German Verb Tenses and English Equivalents
Sample English Verb Conjugation
German Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses
Alphabetically Arranged
English-German Verb Index
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GERMAN VERBS

GERMAN VERBS
fully conjugated in all the tenses
Alphabetically arranged
by
Henry
Strutz
Formerly Associate ProfessorofLanguages
S.U.N.Y., Agricultural&TechnicalCollege
Alfred, New York
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Strutz, Henry.
301 German verbs.
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1. German language—Verb—Tables, lists, etc.
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CONTENTS
Foreword v
Tenses and Moods in German,
with English Equivalents ix
Sample English Verb Conjugation x
Sample German Verb Conjugation xi
Sample English Verb Conjugation xii
PASSIVE VOICE
Sample German Verb Conjugation xiii
PASSIVE VOICE
Principal Parts of Some Strong Verbs Arranged
According to Pattern of Change xiv
German Verbs Fully Conjugated in 1
ALL THE TENSES, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED
English-German Verb Index 303
German-English Verb Index 312
Index of Verb Forms Identified by Infinitive 320
i

FOREWORD
The verb is a very important part of speech; it denotes action or state
of being. The noted American historian and poet, Carl Sandburg,
once declared that the Civil War was fought over a verb, namely
whether it was correct to say 'The United States is" or "The United
States are.*1
For each of the 301 verbs listed in this book, the student will find
the principal parts of each verb at the top of the page. The principal
parts consist of:
1. the Infinitive
2. the third person singular of the Past Tense
3. the Past Participle (preceded by 'ist' for 'sein' verbs)
4. the third person singular of the Present Tense
example: English: to speak, spoke, spoken, speaks
German: sprechen, sprach, gesprochen, spricht
These are the basic forms of the verb and should be memorized,
especially in the case of the irregular or strong verbs, i.e., verbs which
change the stem vowel of the Infinitive to form the Past Tense and
whose Past Participle ends in 'en'. More than one-half the verbs in
this book are strong or irregular verbs.
Weak or regular verbs do not change the stem vowel of the In-
finitive to form the Past Tense but merely add the ending 'te' (plus
personal endings in the second person singular and the three persons
of the plural). Past Participles of weak verbs end in *t\
example: English: to play, played, played, plays
German: spielen, spielte, gespielt, spielt
Both English and German have strong and weak verbs.
With the exception of a small group of verbs called irregular weak
—
verbs (in some texts called mixed verbs or 'hybrids' see index),
verbs in German are either weak or strong. The strong or irregular
verbs are not as difficult to learn as it might seem, if it is remembered
that most of them can be classified into seven major groups. For
example, the verbs bleiben, leihen, meiden, preisen, reiben, scheiden,
schcinen, schreien, schweigen, steigen, treiben, verzeihen, weisen, e+r
all follow the same pattern as schreiben in their principal parts:
schreiben, schrieb, geschneben, schreibt
There are six other major groupings (the "Ablautsreihen") of the
strong verbs with which the student should familiarize himself from
his textbook and classroom drill. He will then agree that the English
author, H. H. Munro (Saki), exaggerated the difficulty of German
verbs when, in his story "Tobermory," he told of a professor who
had to flee England after a cat, which he had trained to talk, com-
promised the weekend guests at an English manor house by revealing
their secrets which it (the cat) had overheard. A few weeks there-
after, the newspapers reported that the professor had been found
dead in the Dresden Zoo in Germany. Upon hearing this news, one
of the guests, who had been embarrassed by the activities of the
professor and his remarkable cat, commented that it served the
professor right if he was trying to teach the poor animals those hor-
rible German irregular verbs.
Below the principal parts, the student will find the Imperative or
Command Form. Since there are three ways of saying you in German
(du, ihr and Sie) there are thus three ways of giving commands to
people. The first form of the Imperative is the du or familiar singular
form which ends in e in most cases, although this e is frequently
dropped in colloquial speech. The second form is the ihr or Familiar
Plural Imperative. It is exactly the same as the ihr form (second
person plural) of the Present Tense. The polite or Sie Imperative
(called in some textsthe Conventionalor Formal Imperative)is simply
the infinitive plus Sie, except for the imper. of sein, which is seien Sie!
The fully conjugated forms of the six tenses of the Indicative will
be found on the left hand side of each page. These six tenses state a
fact, or, in their interrogative (question) form, ask a question about
a fact. The student is referred to his grammar for more detailed in-
formation concerning the use of these tenses: the idiomatic use of the
Present for the Future; the use of the Present Perfect in colloquial
speech and in non-connected narratives where English uses the past;
the Future and Future Perfect used idiomatically to express prob-
ability; the very important matter of 'sein' and intransitive verbs,
etc.
The rest of each page is devoted to the tenses of the Subjunctive
mood, which is used to denote unreality, possibility, doubt in the
mind of the speaker, etc. For information concerning the use of the