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GERMAN VERB

anschauen

to look at, to watch

  • #271 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: angeschaut

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

  1. ich I look at
  2. du you look at
  3. er, sie, es he/she looks at
  4. wir we look at
  5. ihr you all look at
  6. sie, Sie they look at

Simple past

Präteritum · the past of writing, and of sein, haben and the modals in speech

  1. ich I looked at
  2. du you looked at
  3. er, sie, es he/she looked at
  4. wir we looked at
  5. ihr you all looked at
  6. sie, Sie they looked at

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

  1. ich I have looked at
  2. du you have looked at
  3. er, sie, es he/she has looked at
  4. wir we have looked at
  5. ihr you all have looked at
  6. sie, Sie they have looked at

Future

Futur I · “werden”; in speech the present with “morgen” does the job

  1. ich I will look at
  2. du you will look at
  3. er, sie, es he/she will look at
  4. wir we will look at
  5. ihr you all will look at
  6. sie, Sie they will look at

Conditional

Konjunktiv II · “would”: “würde”, and “wäre”, “hätte”, “könnte”

  1. ich I would look at
  2. du you would look at
  3. er, sie, es he/she would look at
  4. wir we would look at
  5. ihr you all would look at
  6. sie, Sie they would look at

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

  1. du look at!
  2. ihr look at! (all of you)
  3. Sie look at! (formal)

How to use anschauen

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present

    Wir schauen uns heute Abend einen Film an.

    We're watching a film tonight.

  2. Simple past

    Sie schaute das Foto lange an.

    She looked at the photo for a long time.

  3. Perfect

    Hast du dir die Wohnung schon angeschaut?

    Have you had a look at the flat yet?

  4. Future

    Ich werde mir das Spiel im Fernsehen anschauen.

    I'll watch the game on TV.

  5. Conditional

    Ich würde mir das Auto erst anschauen.

    I'd look at the car first.

  6. Imperative

    Schau mich an, wenn ich mit dir rede!

    Look at me when I'm talking to you!

Good to know

  • "Sich etwas anschauen", with a dative pronoun, is having a look at something, ich schaue mir das an; "ansehen" means the same.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.