Present
Präsens · now, habits and facts
- ich I grieve
- du you grieve
- er, sie, es he/she grieves
- wir we grieve
- ihr you all grieve
- sie, Sie they grieve
GERMAN VERB
to grieve, to mourn
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Präsens · now, habits and facts
Präteritum · the past of writing, and of sein, haben and the modals in speech
Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”
Futur I · “werden”; in speech the present with “morgen” does the job
Konjunktiv II · “would”: “würde”, and “wäre”, “hätte”, “könnte”
Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie
One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.
Die ganze Familie trauert um den Großvater.
The whole family is grieving for the grandfather.
Sie trauerte lange um ihren Hund.
She grieved for her dog for a long time.
Das Dorf hat eine Woche lang getrauert.
The village mourned for a week.
Wir werden noch lange um ihn trauern.
We'll grieve for him for a long time yet.
Jeder würde um so einen Freund trauern.
Anyone would grieve for a friend like that.
Trauere nicht zu lange, er wollte das nicht.
Don't grieve too long, he wouldn't have wanted that.
The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.
The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.