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GERMAN VERB

gucken

to look

  • #108 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: geguckt

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use gucken

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

  1. Present

    Was guckst du da auf dem Handy?

    What are you looking at on your phone?

  2. Simple past

    Wir guckten den ganzen Abend Serien.

    We watched series the whole evening.

  3. Perfect

    Hast du schon in den Briefkasten geguckt?

    Have you checked the letterbox yet?

  4. Future

    Ich werde später noch mal gucken.

    I'll have another look later.

  5. Conditional

    Ich würde erst mal gucken, was es kostet.

    I'd first have a look at what it costs.

  6. Imperative

    Guck mal, da drüben ist ein Reh!

    Look, there's a deer over there!

Good to know

  • Gucken is the everyday word for schauen or sehen; in the north you also hear kucken.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.