sichergehen
to make sure
- Past (Präteritum)
- ging sicher
- Past participle
- sichergegangen (sein)
Irregular separable verb following the conjugation of gehen. It conveys the intent to ensure that a fact is correct or that a task has been performed properly. It is frequently followed by a da-clause or a dass-clause. Note that the simple verb gehen is intransitive, whereas this compound specifically addresses the certainty of a situation.
Conjugation
Present
- geht sicher
- present, singular, third-person
- gehe sicher
- first-person, indicative, present, singular
- gehen sicher
- first-person, indicative, plural, present
- gehst sicher
- indicative, present, second-person, singular
- sichergehe
- first-person, indicative, present, singular, subordinate-clause
- sichergehen
- first-person, indicative, plural, present, subordinate-clause
- sichergehst
- indicative, present, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- sichergeht
- indicative, plural, present, second-person, subordinate-clause
Past
- ging sicher
- past
- gingen sicher
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite
- gingst sicher
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular
- gingt sicher
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person
- sicherging
- first-person, indicative, preterite, singular, subordinate-clause
- sichergingen
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite, subordinate-clause
- sichergingst
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- sichergingt
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person, subordinate-clause
Subjunctive
- gehe sicher
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehen sicher
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehest sicher
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- gehet sicher
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- ginge sicher
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingen sicher
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingest sicher
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingst sicher
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- ginget sicher
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- gingt sicher
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- sichergehe
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- sichergehen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- sichergehest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- sichergehet
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- sicherginge
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sichergingen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sichergingest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sichergingst
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sicherginget
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sichergingt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sei sichergegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, subjunctive
- seien sichergegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, subjunctive
- seist sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiest sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiet sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
- wäre sichergegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, subjunctive
- wären sichergegangen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, subjunctive
- wärst sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärest sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärt sichergegangen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
Imperative
- geh sicher
- imperative, second-person, singular
- gehe sicher
- imperative, second-person, singular
- geht sicher
- imperative, plural, second-person
Participle
- sichergegangen
- participle, past
- sichergehend
- participle, present
Infinitive
- sichergehen
- infinitive
- sicherzugehen
- infinitive, infinitive-zu
Other
- bin sichergegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular
- sind sichergegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural
- bist sichergegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular
- seid sichergegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person
- ist sichergegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, third-person
- war sichergegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular
- waren sichergegangen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural
- warst sichergegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular
- wart sichergegangen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person
- sichergehen werden
- future, future-i, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde sichergehen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden sichergehen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst sichergehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet sichergehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird sichergehen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person
- sichergegangen sein werden
- future, future-ii, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde sichergegangen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden sichergegangen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst sichergegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet sichergegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird sichergegangen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person