verdunsten — German conjugation
to evaporate
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 | verdunste | I evaporate |
| du | verdunstest | you evaporate |
| er/sie/es | verdunstet | he/she/it evaporates |
| wir | verdunsten | we evaporate |
| ihr | verdunstet | you (pl.) evaporate |
| sie/Sie | verdunsten | they evaporate |
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 | verdunstete | I evaporated |
| du | verdunstetest | you evaporated |
| er/sie/es | verdunstete | he/she/it evaporated |
| wir | verdunsteten | we evaporated |
| ihr | verdunstetet | you (pl.) evaporated |
| sie/Sie | verdunsteten | they evaporated |
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 | bin verdunstet | I have evaporated |
| du | bist verdunstet | you have evaporated |
| er/sie/es | ist verdunstet | he/she/it has evaporated |
| wir | sind verdunstet | we have evaporated |
| ihr | seid verdunstet | you (pl.) have evaporated |
| sie/Sie | sind verdunstet | they have evaporated |
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 | war verdunstet | I had evaporated |
| du | warst verdunstet | you had evaporated |
| er/sie/es | war verdunstet | he/she/it had evaporated |
| wir | waren verdunstet | we had evaporated |
| ihr | wart verdunstet | you (pl.) had evaporated |
| sie/Sie | waren verdunstet | they had evaporated |
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 verdunsten | I will evaporate |
| du | wirst verdunsten | you will evaporate |
| er/sie/es | wird verdunsten | he/she/it will evaporate |
| wir | werden verdunsten | we will evaporate |
| ihr | werdet verdunsten | you (pl.) will evaporate |
| sie/Sie | werden verdunsten | they will evaporate |
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 verdunstet sein | I will have evaporated |
| du | wirst verdunstet sein | you will have evaporated |
| er/sie/es | wird verdunstet sein | he/she/it will have evaporated |
| wir | werden verdunstet sein | we will have evaporated |
| ihr | werdet verdunstet sein | you (pl.) will have evaporated |
| sie/Sie | werden verdunstet sein | they will have evaporated |
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 | verdunstete |
| du | verdunstetest |
| er/sie/es | verdunstete |
| wir | verdunsteten |
| ihr | verdunstetet |
| sie/Sie | verdunsteten |
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 | verdunste |
| ihr | verdunstet |