ansagen — German conjugation

to announce

Frequency#2540Regular

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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichsage anI announce
dusagst anyou announce
er/sie/essagt anhe/she/it announces
wirsagen anwe announce
ihrsagt anyou (pl.) announce
sie/Siesagen anthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichsagte anI announced
dusagtest anyou announced
er/sie/essagte anhe/she/it announced
wirsagten anwe announced
ihrsagtet anyou (pl.) announced
sie/Siesagten anthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichhabe angesagtI have announced
duhast angesagtyou have announced
er/sie/eshat angesagthe/she/it has announced
wirhaben angesagtwe have announced
ihrhabt angesagtyou (pl.) have announced
sie/Siehaben angesagtthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichhatte angesagtI had announced
duhattest angesagtyou had announced
er/sie/eshatte angesagthe/she/it had announced
wirhatten angesagtwe had announced
ihrhattet angesagtyou (pl.) had announced
sie/Siehatten angesagtthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichwerde ansagenI will announce
duwirst ansagenyou will announce
er/sie/eswird ansagenhe/she/it will announce
wirwerden ansagenwe will announce
ihrwerdet ansagenyou (pl.) will announce
sie/Siewerden ansagenthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichwerde angesagt habenI will have announced
duwirst angesagt habenyou will have announced
er/sie/eswird angesagt habenhe/she/it will have announced
wirwerden angesagt habenwe will have announced
ihrwerdet angesagt habenyou (pl.) will have announced
sie/Siewerden angesagt habenthey 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?

PronounGerman
ichsagte an
dusagtest an
er/sie/essagte an
wirsagten an
ihrsagtet an
sie/Siesagten 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.

PronounGerman
dusage an
ihrsagt an