verkünden — German conjugation

to announce

Frequency#1209Regular

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
ichverkündeI announce
duverkündestyou announce
er/sie/esverkündethe/she/it announces
wirverkündenwe announce
ihrverkündetyou (pl.) announce
sie/Sieverkündenthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichverkündeteI announced
duverkündetestyou announced
er/sie/esverkündetehe/she/it announced
wirverkündetenwe announced
ihrverkündetetyou (pl.) announced
sie/Sieverkündetenthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichhabe verkündetI have announced
duhast verkündetyou have announced
er/sie/eshat verkündethe/she/it has announced
wirhaben verkündetwe have announced
ihrhabt verkündetyou (pl.) have announced
sie/Siehaben verkündetthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichhatte verkündetI had announced
duhattest verkündetyou had announced
er/sie/eshatte verkündethe/she/it had announced
wirhatten verkündetwe had announced
ihrhattet verkündetyou (pl.) had announced
sie/Siehatten verkündetthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichwerde verkündenI will announce
duwirst verkündenyou will announce
er/sie/eswird verkündenhe/she/it will announce
wirwerden verkündenwe will announce
ihrwerdet verkündenyou (pl.) will announce
sie/Siewerden verkündenthey 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.

PronounGermanEnglish
ichwerde verkündet habenI will have announced
duwirst verkündet habenyou will have announced
er/sie/eswird verkündet habenhe/she/it will have announced
wirwerden verkündet habenwe will have announced
ihrwerdet verkündet habenyou (pl.) will have announced
sie/Siewerden verkündet habenthey 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?

PronounGerman
ichverkündete
duverkündetest
er/sie/esverkündete
wirverkündeten
ihrverkündetet
sie/Sieverkündeten

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
duverkünde
ihrverkündet