Before you start
Meet geschehen
Read how the verb is used, then write your own 10 sentences with it.
All 4 meanings
- (intransitive) to occur; to happen
- (intransitive) to happen [with mit (+ dative) or dative ‘to someone’]
- (impersonal) to serve right, to be deserved [with dative ‘someone’ and recht ‘right’] (in this construction passieren is not possible)
- (impersonal) over, lost, done for, doomed, dead [with um ‘for someone’]
Forms
How geschehen changes
| Pronoun | Präsens | Präteritum |
|---|---|---|
| ich | geschehe | geschah |
| du | geschiehst | geschahst |
| er/sie/es | geschieht | geschah |
| wir | geschehen | geschahen |
| ihr | gescheht | geschaht |
| Sie | geschehen | geschahen |
Partizip II geschehen · Perfekt with sein
Three examples
- 1Was geschieht hier?What is happening here?present-tense question
- 2Der Unfall ist gestern geschehen.The accident happened yesterday.Perfekt with sein
- 3Ich weiß nicht, was geschehen ist.I don't know what happened.verb at the end