vermuten — German conjugation

to suspect

Frequency#683Regular

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
ichvermuteI suspect
duvermutestyou suspect
er/sie/esvermutethe/she/it suspects
wirvermutenwe suspect
ihrvermutetyou (pl.) suspect
sie/Sievermutenthey suspect

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
ichvermuteteI suspected
duvermutetestyou suspected
er/sie/esvermutetehe/she/it suspected
wirvermutetenwe suspected
ihrvermutetetyou (pl.) suspected
sie/Sievermutetenthey suspected

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 vermutetI have suspected
duhast vermutetyou have suspected
er/sie/eshat vermutethe/she/it has suspected
wirhaben vermutetwe have suspected
ihrhabt vermutetyou (pl.) have suspected
sie/Siehaben vermutetthey have suspected

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 vermutetI had suspected
duhattest vermutetyou had suspected
er/sie/eshatte vermutethe/she/it had suspected
wirhatten vermutetwe had suspected
ihrhattet vermutetyou (pl.) had suspected
sie/Siehatten vermutetthey had suspected

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 vermutenI will suspect
duwirst vermutenyou will suspect
er/sie/eswird vermutenhe/she/it will suspect
wirwerden vermutenwe will suspect
ihrwerdet vermutenyou (pl.) will suspect
sie/Siewerden vermutenthey will suspect

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

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
ichvermutete
duvermutetest
er/sie/esvermutete
wirvermuteten
ihrvermutetet
sie/Sievermuteten

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
duvermute
ihrvermutet