ankündigen — German conjugation
to announce
Indicative
Present (Präsens) Regular
Präsens is the default present for facts, habits, and near-future plans. German has no continuous aspect in the same way as English, so a single form often covers both “I work” and “I am working” when you add a time adverb or context.
Ich arbeite heute im Homeoffice.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | kündige an | I announce |
| du | kündigst an | you announce |
| er/sie/es | kündigt an | he/she/it announces |
| wir | kündigen an | we announce |
| ihr | kündigt an | you (pl.) announce |
| sie/Sie | kündigen an | they announce |
Simple past (Präteritum) Regular
Präteritum is a narrative past, common in print and in northern speech, while southern speakers lean on the perfect in conversation. sein and haben keep their Präteritum even when you otherwise avoid the preterite.
Er war müde, aber er hatte keinen Kaffee mehr.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | kündigte an | I announced |
| du | kündigtest an | you announced |
| er/sie/es | kündigte an | he/she/it announced |
| wir | kündigten an | we announced |
| ihr | kündigtet an | you (pl.) announced |
| sie/Sie | kündigten an | they announced |
Present perfect (Perfekt) Regular
The Perfekt is the everyday past for finished events: auxiliary haben or sein plus participle, with sein for most motion, coming/going, and some change-of-state verbs.
Wir sind rechtzeitig angekommen und haben gefeiert.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | habe angekündigt | I have announced |
| du | hast angekündigt | you have announced |
| er/sie/es | hat angekündigt | he/she/it has announced |
| wir | haben angekündigt | we have announced |
| ihr | habt angekündigt | you (pl.) have announced |
| sie/Sie | haben angekündigt | they have announced |
Pluperfect (Plusquamperfekt) Regular
The Plusquamperfekt is the pluperfect: it marks what had already completed before a later past episode in the same narrative.
Sie war schon gegangen, bevor er ankam.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | hatte angekündigt | I had announced |
| du | hattest angekündigt | you had announced |
| er/sie/es | hatte angekündigt | he/she/it had announced |
| wir | hatten angekündigt | we had announced |
| ihr | hattet angekündigt | you (pl.) had announced |
| sie/Sie | hatten angekündigt | they had announced |
Future I (Futur I) Regular
Futur I is for predictions, firm promises, and also probability about the present in colloquial German. Everyday speech very often uses Präsens plus a time expression instead.
Morgen schneit es, sagt der Wetterbericht.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | werde ankündigen | I will announce |
| du | wirst ankündigen | you will announce |
| er/sie/es | wird ankündigen | he/she/it will announce |
| wir | werden ankündigen | we will announce |
| ihr | werdet ankündigen | you (pl.) will announce |
| sie/Sie | werden ankündigen | they will announce |
Future II (Futur II) Regular
Futur II (werden + participle + haben/sein) names an action that will be completed before a later time, and can also express a guess that something must already have happened.
Bis Freitag werde ich alles gepackt haben.
| Pronoun | German | English |
|---|---|---|
| ich | werde angekündigt haben | I will have announced |
| du | wirst angekündigt haben | you will have announced |
| er/sie/es | wird angekündigt haben | he/she/it will have announced |
| wir | werden angekündigt haben | we will have announced |
| ihr | werdet angekündigt haben | you (pl.) will have announced |
| sie/Sie | werden angekündigt haben | they will have announced |
Subjunctive
Subjunctive II (Konjunktiv II) Regular
Konjunktiv II is the mood for politeness, contrary-to-fact if-clauses, and reported views. In speech, würde + infinitive often stands in for rarer preterit-based forms.
Könnten Sie mir bitte helfen?
| Pronoun | German |
|---|---|
| ich | kündigte an |
| du | kündigtest an |
| er/sie/es | kündigte an |
| wir | kündigten an |
| ihr | kündigtet an |
| sie/Sie | kündigten an |
Other forms
Imperative (Imperativ) Regular
The imperative uses the du, ihr, and Sie forms of command; the informal du form drops the -st of the present for many strong verbs, and separable-prefix verbs place the prefix at the end.
Mach bitte schnell, der Zug fährt gleich ab.
| Pronoun | German |
|---|---|
| du | kündige an |
| ihr | kündigt an |