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GERMAN VERB

wandern

to hike

  • #389 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: gewandert

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use wandern

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

  1. Present

    Wir wandern gern in den Alpen.

    We like hiking in the Alps.

  2. Simple past

    Letzten Sommer wanderten wir drei Tage lang.

    Last summer we hiked for three days.

  3. Perfect

    Gestern sind wir zwanzig Kilometer gewandert.

    Yesterday we hiked twenty kilometres.

  4. Future

    Am Sonntag werden wir zum See wandern.

    On Sunday we'll hike to the lake.

  5. Conditional

    Bei gutem Wetter würde ich gern wandern.

    In good weather I'd like to go hiking.

  6. Imperative

    Wandert nicht allein, nehmt einen Freund mit.

    Don't hike alone, take a friend along.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: weak verb.