kümmern — German conjugation

to care

Frequency#2480Regular

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
ichkümmereI care
dukümmerstyou care
er/sie/eskümmerthe/she/it cares
wirkümmernwe care
ihrkümmertyou (pl.) care
sie/Siekümmernthey care

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
ichkümmerteI cared
dukümmertestyou cared
er/sie/eskümmertehe/she/it cared
wirkümmertenwe cared
ihrkümmertetyou (pl.) cared
sie/Siekümmertenthey cared

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 gekümmertI have cared
duhast gekümmertyou have cared
er/sie/eshat gekümmerthe/she/it has cared
wirhaben gekümmertwe have cared
ihrhabt gekümmertyou (pl.) have cared
sie/Siehaben gekümmertthey have cared

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 gekümmertI had cared
duhattest gekümmertyou had cared
er/sie/eshatte gekümmerthe/she/it had cared
wirhatten gekümmertwe had cared
ihrhattet gekümmertyou (pl.) had cared
sie/Siehatten gekümmertthey had cared

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 kümmernI will care
duwirst kümmernyou will care
er/sie/eswird kümmernhe/she/it will care
wirwerden kümmernwe will care
ihrwerdet kümmernyou (pl.) will care
sie/Siewerden kümmernthey will care

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

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
ichkümmerte
dukümmertest
er/sie/eskümmerte
wirkümmerten
ihrkümmertet
sie/Siekümmerten

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
dukümmere
ihrkümmert