Present
Präsens · now, habits and facts
- ich I refuse
- du you refuse
- er, sie, es he/she refuses
- wir we refuse
- ihr you all refuse
- sie, Sie they refuse
GERMAN VERB
to refuse, to reject
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Präsens · now, habits and facts
Präteritum · the past of writing, and of sein, haben and the modals in speech
Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”
Futur I · “werden”; in speech the present with “morgen” does the job
Konjunktiv II · “would”: “würde”, and “wäre”, “hätte”, “könnte”
Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie
One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.
Ich lehne das Angebot dankend ab.
I'm turning the offer down, with thanks.
Die Bank lehnte unseren Kredit ab.
The bank rejected our loan.
Warum hat er die Einladung abgelehnt?
Why did he turn down the invitation?
Der Rat wird den Vorschlag wohl ablehnen.
The council will probably reject the proposal.
So einen Job würde ich nicht ablehnen.
I wouldn't turn down a job like that.
Lehn nicht gleich ab, denk erst darüber nach!
Don't say no right away, think about it first!
The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.
The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.