verkünden — German conjugation
to announce
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 | verkünde | I announce |
| du | verkündest | you announce |
| er/sie/es | verkündet | he/she/it announces |
| wir | verkünden | we announce |
| ihr | verkündet | you (pl.) announce |
| sie/Sie | verkünden | they announce |
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 | verkündete | I announced |
| du | verkündetest | you announced |
| er/sie/es | verkündete | he/she/it announced |
| wir | verkündeten | we announced |
| ihr | verkündetet | you (pl.) announced |
| sie/Sie | verkündeten | they announced |
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 verkündet | I have announced |
| du | hast verkündet | you have announced |
| er/sie/es | hat verkündet | he/she/it has announced |
| wir | haben verkündet | we have announced |
| ihr | habt verkündet | you (pl.) have announced |
| sie/Sie | haben verkündet | they have announced |
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 verkündet | I had announced |
| du | hattest verkündet | you had announced |
| er/sie/es | hatte verkündet | he/she/it had announced |
| wir | hatten verkündet | we had announced |
| ihr | hattet verkündet | you (pl.) had announced |
| sie/Sie | hatten verkündet | they had announced |
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 verkünden | I will announce |
| du | wirst verkünden | you will announce |
| er/sie/es | wird verkünden | he/she/it will announce |
| wir | werden verkünden | we will announce |
| ihr | werdet verkünden | you (pl.) will announce |
| sie/Sie | werden verkünden | they will announce |
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 verkündet haben | I will have announced |
| du | wirst verkündet haben | you will have announced |
| er/sie/es | wird verkündet haben | he/she/it will have announced |
| wir | werden verkündet haben | we will have announced |
| ihr | werdet verkündet haben | you (pl.) will have announced |
| sie/Sie | werden verkündet haben | they will have announced |
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 | verkündete |
| du | verkündetest |
| er/sie/es | verkündete |
| wir | verkündeten |
| ihr | verkündetet |
| sie/Sie | verkündeten |
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 | verkünde |
| ihr | verkündet |