knuscheln — German conjugation

to snuggle

Frequency#1795Regular

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
ichknuscheleI snuggle
duknuschelstyou snuggle
er/sie/esknuschelthe/she/it snuggles
wirknuschelnwe snuggle
ihrknuscheltyou (pl.) snuggle
sie/Sieknuschelnthey snuggle

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
ichknuschelteI snuggled
duknuscheltestyou snuggled
er/sie/esknuscheltehe/she/it snuggled
wirknuscheltenwe snuggled
ihrknuscheltetyou (pl.) snuggled
sie/Sieknuscheltenthey snuggled

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 geknuscheltI have snuggled
duhast geknuscheltyou have snuggled
er/sie/eshat geknuschelthe/she/it has snuggled
wirhaben geknuscheltwe have snuggled
ihrhabt geknuscheltyou (pl.) have snuggled
sie/Siehaben geknuscheltthey have snuggled

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 geknuscheltI had snuggled
duhattest geknuscheltyou had snuggled
er/sie/eshatte geknuschelthe/she/it had snuggled
wirhatten geknuscheltwe had snuggled
ihrhattet geknuscheltyou (pl.) had snuggled
sie/Siehatten geknuscheltthey had snuggled

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 knuschelnI will snuggle
duwirst knuschelnyou will snuggle
er/sie/eswird knuschelnhe/she/it will snuggle
wirwerden knuschelnwe will snuggle
ihrwerdet knuschelnyou (pl.) will snuggle
sie/Siewerden knuschelnthey will snuggle

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 geknuschelt habenI will have snuggled
duwirst geknuschelt habenyou will have snuggled
er/sie/eswird geknuschelt habenhe/she/it will have snuggled
wirwerden geknuschelt habenwe will have snuggled
ihrwerdet geknuschelt habenyou (pl.) will have snuggled
sie/Siewerden geknuschelt habenthey will have snuggled

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
ichknuschelte
duknuscheltest
er/sie/esknuschelte
wirknuschelten
ihrknuscheltet
sie/Sieknuschelten

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
duknuschele
ihrknuschelt