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GERMAN VERB

bedeuten

to mean

  • #99 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: bedeutet

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

How to use bedeuten

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

  1. Present

    Was bedeutet dieses Wort auf Deutsch?

    What does this word mean in German?

  2. Simple past

    Das rote Licht bedeutete früher Alarm.

    The red light used to mean an alarm.

  3. Perfect

    Deine Hilfe hat mir sehr viel bedeutet.

    Your help meant a great deal to me.

  4. Future

    Der Umzug wird viel Arbeit bedeuten.

    The move will mean a lot of work.

  5. Conditional

    Ein Nein würde das Ende des Projekts bedeuten.

    A no would mean the end of the project.

Good to know

  • Was bedeutet das? asks what a word means; meinen is what a person means. Die Bedeutung is the meaning.

Where you hear bedeuten

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

German · Advanced Level 1

  • Das bedeutet viel. That means a lot.
  • Das hat nichts bedeutet. That meant nothing.
  • Morgen bedeutet das etwas anderes. Tomorrow that means something else.

German · Advanced Level 2

  • Das bedeutet viel. That means a lot.
  • Das hat nichts bedeutet. That meant nothing.
  • Morgen bedeutet das etwas anderes. Tomorrow that means something else.
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Researching It

Advanced Level 1 · Ein Vorkaufsrecht? Was bedeutet das?

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Back in Berlin

Advanced Level 2 · Danke. Das bedeutet mir viel.

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An Interview with the Cousins

Advanced Level 3 · Was bedeutet Ihnen diese Geschichte?

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A Saying on the Dyke

Fluency Level 2 · Was bedeutet das Sprichwort?

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Explaining a Dialect

Fluency Level 2 · Genau. Was bedeutet Moin? · Moin bedeutet guten Tag. So sagt man dort.

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A Proverb a Day

Fluency Level 2 · Was bedeutet das Sprichwort?

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