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GERMAN VERB

trauern

to grieve, to mourn

  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: getrauert

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use trauern

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

  1. Present

    Die ganze Familie trauert um den Großvater.

    The whole family is grieving for the grandfather.

  2. Simple past

    Sie trauerte lange um ihren Hund.

    She grieved for her dog for a long time.

  3. Perfect

    Das Dorf hat eine Woche lang getrauert.

    The village mourned for a week.

  4. Future

    Wir werden noch lange um ihn trauern.

    We'll grieve for him for a long time yet.

  5. Conditional

    Jeder würde um so einen Freund trauern.

    Anyone would grieve for a friend like that.

  6. Imperative

    Trauere nicht zu lange, er wollte das nicht.

    Don't grieve too long, he wouldn't have wanted that.

Good to know

  • You grieve um someone: Sie trauert um ihren Mann.

Where you hear trauern

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

German · Advanced Level 3

  • Die Familie trauert. The family is grieving.
  • Sie haben lange getrauert. They grieved for a long time.
  • Morgen trauern wir nicht mehr. Tomorrow we grieve no more.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.