navigieren — German conjugation

to navigate (direct someone through a difficult situation)

Frequency#689Regular

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
ichnavigiereI navigate
dunavigierstyou navigate
er/sie/esnavigierthe/she/it navigates
wirnavigierenwe navigate
ihrnavigiertyou (pl.) navigate
sie/Sienavigierenthey navigate

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
ichnavigierteI navigated
dunavigiertestyou navigated
er/sie/esnavigiertehe/she/it navigated
wirnavigiertenwe navigated
ihrnavigiertetyou (pl.) navigated
sie/Sienavigiertenthey navigated

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 navigiertI have navigated
duhast navigiertyou have navigated
er/sie/eshat navigierthe/she/it has navigated
wirhaben navigiertwe have navigated
ihrhabt navigiertyou (pl.) have navigated
sie/Siehaben navigiertthey have navigated

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 navigiertI had navigated
duhattest navigiertyou had navigated
er/sie/eshatte navigierthe/she/it had navigated
wirhatten navigiertwe had navigated
ihrhattet navigiertyou (pl.) had navigated
sie/Siehatten navigiertthey had navigated

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 navigierenI will navigate
duwirst navigierenyou will navigate
er/sie/eswird navigierenhe/she/it will navigate
wirwerden navigierenwe will navigate
ihrwerdet navigierenyou (pl.) will navigate
sie/Siewerden navigierenthey will navigate

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

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
ichnavigierte
dunavigiertest
er/sie/esnavigierte
wirnavigierten
ihrnavigiertet
sie/Sienavigierten

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
dunavigiere
ihrnavigiert