{"id":1480,"date":"2010-11-07T21:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2013-03-28T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:58:09","slug":"the-german-verb-sein-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/1480\/the-german-verb-sein-to-be","title":{"rendered":"The German verb sein – to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The verb sein – to be<\/h3>\n

strong verb, formed with sein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Below are the verb tables detailing how the German verb sein<\/strong> is formed depending on the tense of the sentence. Knowing the different forms of sein<\/strong> through the tenses will allow you to construct sentences much easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nPresent Tense<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nFuture Tense<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConditional Tense<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ich<\/strong><\/td>\nbin<\/td>\nwerde sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrde sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
du<\/strong><\/td>\nbist<\/td>\nwirst sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrdest sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
er\/sie\/es<\/strong><\/td>\nist<\/td>\nwird sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrde sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
wir<\/strong><\/td>\nsind<\/td>\nwerden sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrden sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ihr<\/strong><\/td>\nseid<\/td>\nwerdet sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrdet sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sie\/Sie<\/strong><\/td>\nsind<\/td>\nwerden sein<\/td>\nw\u00fcrden sein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nPerfect Tense<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nImperfect Tense<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nPluperfect <\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ich<\/strong><\/td>\nbin gewesen<\/td>\nwar<\/td>\nwar gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
du<\/strong><\/td>\nbist gewesen<\/td>\nwarst<\/td>\nwarst gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
er\/sie\/es<\/strong><\/td>\nist gewesen<\/td>\nwar<\/td>\nwar gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
wir<\/strong><\/td>\nsind gewesen<\/td>\nwaren<\/td>\nwaren gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ihr<\/strong><\/td>\nseid gewesen<\/td>\nwart<\/td>\nwart gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sie\/Sie<\/strong><\/td>\nsind gewesen<\/td>\nwaren<\/td>\nwaren gewesen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Imperative:<\/strong> sei!\/seien wir!\/seid!\/seien Sie!<\/p>\n

Past Participle:<\/strong> gewesen<\/p>\n

Example Sentences:<\/h3>\n

Ich bin 21 Jahre alt. – I’m 21 years old.
\nWir werden im Dezember in Florida sein. – We’ll be in Florida in December.
\nEr w\u00fcrde gerne reich sein. – He would like to be rich.
\nSind Sie schon einmal in Amerika gewesen? – Have you ever been to America?
\nWo warst du gestern Abend? – Where were you last night?
\nIch war dort nie gewesen. – I’ve never been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The verb sein – to be strong verb, formed with sein Below are the verb tables detailing how the German verb sein is formed depending on the tense of the sentence. Knowing the different forms of sein through the tenses will allow you to construct sentences much easier. Present Tense Future Tense Conditional Tense ich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}