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gehen

Irregular Level A1 ⭐ #5 Most Common

English translation: to go / to walk

Stem Pattern: geht / ging (Präteritum) / ist gegangen (Perfekt)

💡 Key Usage Note: Forms the Perfekt with 'sein' because it expresses movement/location change.

📘 Linguistic Rule: Strong verb (Ablautklasse 7) taking auxiliary 'sein' in compound past.

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Present (Präsens)

Present indicative of motion.

Subject Pronoun	Conjugation	Audio
ich	gehe
du	gehst
er / sie / es	geht
wir	gehen
ihr	geht
sie / Sie	gehen

Example Sentences in Context

Wie geht es dir? — How are you? (Lit: How goes it to you?)

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🧠 Memory Trick (Mnemonic)

Direct Germanic cognate of English 'go / gone'.

⚠️ Most Common Student Mistake

✗ Don't say: ~~Ich habe nach Hause gegangen~~

✓ Say instead: Ich bin nach Hause gegangen

Why: Movement verbs expressing trajectory always take 'sein' in Perfekt, never 'haben'.

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Present

ich

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Answer

gehe

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Test your understanding of 'gehen' across tenses

Interactive Quiz

Question 1 (Present)

Wir ___ ins Kino.

Other Important German Verbs to Study

sein Irregular

to be

haben Irregular

to have

werden Irregular

to become / will (future auxiliary)

können Irregular

can / to be able to