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GERMAN VERB

wegwerfen

to throw away

  • #222 most used
  • Strong verb
  • Past participle: weggeworfen

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

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

Simple past

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

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

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Imperativ · requests and orders: du, ihr, Sie

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

How to use wegwerfen

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

  1. Present

    Ich werfe nie Essen weg.

    I never throw food away.

  2. Simple past

    Sie warf die alten Briefe einfach weg.

    She just threw the old letters away.

  3. Perfect

    Hast du die Quittung etwa weggeworfen?

    Don't tell me you threw away the receipt?

  4. Future

    Ich werde den kaputten Stuhl endlich wegwerfen.

    I'll finally throw away the broken chair.

  5. Conditional

    Ich würde die Schuhe noch nicht wegwerfen.

    I wouldn't throw the shoes away yet.

  6. Imperative

    Wirf das nicht weg, das kann man reparieren.

    Don't throw that away, it can be repaired.

Where you hear wegwerfen

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

German · Fluency Level 2

  • Ich werfe nichts weg. I throw nothing away.
  • Ich habe das alte Brot weggeworfen. I threw the old bread away.
  • Morgen werfen wir nichts weg. Tomorrow we won't throw anything away.
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The Kehrwoche

Fluency Level 2 · Bei uns wirft man nichts weg.

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