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GERMAN VERB

schippen

to shovel

  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: geschippt

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use schippen

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

  1. Present

    Ich schippe den Schnee vor dem Haus weg.

    I'm shovelling the snow away from in front of the house.

  2. Simple past

    Opa schippte jeden Morgen den Gehweg frei.

    Grandpa shovelled the pavement clear every morning.

  3. Perfect

    Wir haben zwei Stunden lang Schnee geschippt.

    We shovelled snow for two hours.

  4. Future

    Wer wird morgen früh den Schnee schippen?

    Who's going to shovel the snow tomorrow morning?

  5. Conditional

    Ich würde ja schippen, aber mein Rücken tut weh.

    I would shovel, but my back hurts.

  6. Imperative

    Schipp bitte erst den Weg zur Garage.

    Please shovel the path to the garage first.

Good to know

  • Schnee schippen, clearing the pavement after a snowfall, is a duty for many German households.

Where you hear schippen

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

German · Beginner Level 2

  • Ich schippe Schnee. I'm shovelling snow.
  • Ich habe Schnee geschippt. I shovelled snow.
  • Morgen schippen Sie wieder. Tomorrow you'll shovel again.
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Snow in the Courtyard

Beginner Level 2 · Ich? Schnee schippen?

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