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GERMAN VERB

vorkommen

to occur; to seem

  • #324 most used
  • Strong verb
  • Past participle: vorgekommen

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

How to use vorkommen

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

  1. Present

    So etwas kommt bei uns selten vor.

    Something like that rarely happens here.

  2. Simple past

    Der Name kam mir bekannt vor.

    The name seemed familiar to me.

  3. Perfect

    Das ist mir noch nie vorgekommen.

    That has never happened to me.

  4. Future

    Das wird dir am Anfang seltsam vorkommen.

    That will seem strange to you at first.

  5. Conditional

    Ohne dich würde mir das Haus leer vorkommen.

    Without you the house would seem empty to me.

Good to know

  • Das kommt mir komisch vor is that seems odd to me; das kommt vor means that happens sometimes.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: strong verb.