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Meet verhaften

Read how the verb is used, then write your own 10 sentences with it.

All 3 meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, the general meaning, which is now rare) to stop moving and instead stick, or make or become bound (more or less literally or figuratively)
  2. (transitive) to imprison, to put into confinement after judicial writ (the state of which is called Haft) (this is the most common signification in its strict definition, of which however legal laymen may deviate to mean any kind of government arrest)
  3. (transitive, now rare) to legally subject to eventual foreclosure
Forms

How verhaften changes

PronounPräsensPräteritum
ichverhaft(e)verhaftete
duverhaftestverhaftetest
er/sie/esverhaftetverhaftete
wirverhaftenverhafteten
ihrverhaftetverhaftetet
Sieverhaftenverhafteten

Partizip II verhaftet · Perfekt with haben

Three examples

  1. 1
    Die Polizei verhaftet den Mann.The police arrest the man.present main clause
  2. 2
    Die Polizei hat den Mann verhaftet.The police have arrested the man.Perfekt with haben
  3. 3
    Ich weiß, dass die Polizei den Mann verhaftet.I know that the police arrest the man.verb at the end after dass

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