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GERMAN VERB

baden

to swim, to bathe

  • #391 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: gebadet

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use baden

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

  1. Present

    Im Sommer baden wir oft im See.

    In summer we often swim in the lake.

  2. Simple past

    Als Kind badete ich jeden Tag im Fluss.

    As a child I swam in the river every day.

  3. Perfect

    Habt ihr schon im Meer gebadet?

    Have you swum in the sea yet?

  4. Future

    Morgen werden wir bestimmt baden gehen.

    Tomorrow we'll surely go swimming.

  5. Conditional

    Ich würde gern baden, aber das Wasser ist eiskalt.

    I'd like to swim, but the water is ice cold.

  6. Imperative

    Badet nicht zu lange, es wird kühl!

    Don't swim too long, it's getting cool!

Good to know

  • Baden gehen is to go swimming in a lake or the sea; in a pool people also say schwimmen.

Where you hear baden

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

German · Intermediate Level 1

  • Ich bade im Meer. I'm swimming in the sea.
  • Gestern habe ich um sieben gebadet. Yesterday I swam at seven.
  • Morgen bade ich wieder. Tomorrow I'll swim again.
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The Beach

Intermediate Level 1 · Ja, um sieben. Ich würde gern baden.

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