kaputtgehen
to break
- Past (Präteritum)
- ging kaputt
- Past participle
- kaputtgegangen (sein)
Irregular intransitive verb of change-of-state taking sein as auxiliary. It indicates that a technical device or object becomes non-functional or is destroyed through wear, accident, or malfunction. It is the common colloquial alternative to the formal verb zerbrechen. It is strictly intransitive, as the transitive counterpart to destroy something is kaputt machen.
Conjugation
Present
- geht kaputt
- present, singular, third-person
- gehe kaputt
- first-person, indicative, present, singular
- gehen kaputt
- first-person, indicative, plural, present
- gehst kaputt
- indicative, present, second-person, singular
- kaputtgehe
- first-person, indicative, present, singular, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgehen
- first-person, indicative, plural, present, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgehst
- indicative, present, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgeht
- indicative, plural, present, second-person, subordinate-clause
Past
- ging kaputt
- past
- gingen kaputt
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite
- gingst kaputt
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular
- gingt kaputt
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person
- kaputtging
- first-person, indicative, preterite, singular, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingen
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingst
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingt
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person, subordinate-clause
Subjunctive
- gehe kaputt
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehen kaputt
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehest kaputt
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehet kaputt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- ginge kaputt
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingen kaputt
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingest kaputt
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingst kaputt
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- ginget kaputt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingt kaputt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- kaputtgehe
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgehen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgehest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgehet
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- kaputtginge
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingst
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- kaputtginget
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- kaputtgingt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sei kaputtgegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, subjunctive
- seien kaputtgegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, subjunctive
- seist kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiest kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiet kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
- wäre kaputtgegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, subjunctive
- wären kaputtgegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, subjunctive
- wärst kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärest kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärt kaputtgegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
Imperative
- geh kaputt
- imperative, second-person, singular
- gehe kaputt
- imperative, second-person, singular
- geht kaputt
- imperative, plural, second-person
Participle
- kaputtgegangen
- participle, past
- kaputtgehend
- participle, present
Infinitive
- kaputtgehen
- infinitive
- kaputtzugehen
- infinitive, infinitive-zu
Other
- bin kaputtgegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular
- sind kaputtgegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural
- bist kaputtgegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular
- seid kaputtgegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person
- ist kaputtgegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, third-person
- war kaputtgegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular
- waren kaputtgegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural
- warst kaputtgegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular
- wart kaputtgegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person
- kaputtgehen werden
- future, future-i, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde kaputtgehen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden kaputtgehen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst kaputtgehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet kaputtgehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird kaputtgehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person
- kaputtgegangen sein werden
- future, future-ii, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde kaputtgegangen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden kaputtgegangen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst kaputtgegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet kaputtgegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird kaputtgegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person
- Kaputtgehen
- form-of, gerund, neuter, no-plural, strong