blaumachen — German conjugation
to skip (school)
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 | mache blau | I skip |
| du | machst blau | you skip |
| er/sie/es | macht blau | he/she/it skips |
| wir | machen blau | we skip |
| ihr | macht blau | you (pl.) skip |
| sie/Sie | machen blau | they skip |
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 | machte blau | I skipped |
| du | machtest blau | you skipped |
| er/sie/es | machte blau | he/she/it skipped |
| wir | machten blau | we skipped |
| ihr | machtet blau | you (pl.) skipped |
| sie/Sie | machten blau | they skipped |
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 blaugemacht | I have skipped |
| du | hast blaugemacht | you have skipped |
| er/sie/es | hat blaugemacht | he/she/it has skipped |
| wir | haben blaugemacht | we have skipped |
| ihr | habt blaugemacht | you (pl.) have skipped |
| sie/Sie | haben blaugemacht | they have skipped |
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 blaugemacht | I had skipped |
| du | hattest blaugemacht | you had skipped |
| er/sie/es | hatte blaugemacht | he/she/it had skipped |
| wir | hatten blaugemacht | we had skipped |
| ihr | hattet blaugemacht | you (pl.) had skipped |
| sie/Sie | hatten blaugemacht | they had skipped |
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 blaumachen | I will skip |
| du | wirst blaumachen | you will skip |
| er/sie/es | wird blaumachen | he/she/it will skip |
| wir | werden blaumachen | we will skip |
| ihr | werdet blaumachen | you (pl.) will skip |
| sie/Sie | werden blaumachen | they will skip |
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 blaugemacht haben | I will have skipped |
| du | wirst blaugemacht haben | you will have skipped |
| er/sie/es | wird blaugemacht haben | he/she/it will have skipped |
| wir | werden blaugemacht haben | we will have skipped |
| ihr | werdet blaugemacht haben | you (pl.) will have skipped |
| sie/Sie | werden blaugemacht haben | they will have skipped |
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 | machte blau |
| du | machtest blau |
| er/sie/es | machte blau |
| wir | machten blau |
| ihr | machtet blau |
| sie/Sie | machten blau |
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 | mache blau |
| ihr | macht blau |