vorkommen
to seem / to occur
- Past (Präteritum)
- kam vor
- Past participle
- vorgekommen (sein)
Irregular strong verb using sein because it often denotes a change of state or appearance. In the sense of occurrence, it refers to events or phenomena taking place, while in the reflexive sense it describes how something appears to someone's perception. The conjugation follows the pattern of kommen, changing the vowel in the Präteritum and participle. It is always separable, with the prefix occurring at the end of the clause in main tenses.
Conjugation
Present
- kommt vor
- present, singular, third-person
- komme vor
- first-person, indicative, present, singular
- kommen vor
- first-person, indicative, plural, present
- kommst vor
- indicative, present, second-person, singular
- vorkomme
- first-person, indicative, present, singular, subordinate-clause
- vorkommen
- first-person, indicative, plural, present, subordinate-clause
- vorkommst
- indicative, present, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- vorkommt
- indicative, plural, present, second-person, subordinate-clause
Past
- kam vor
- past
- kamen vor
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite
- kamst vor
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular
- kamt vor
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person
- vorkam
- first-person, indicative, preterite, singular, subordinate-clause
- vorkamen
- first-person, indicative, plural, preterite, subordinate-clause
- vorkamst
- indicative, preterite, second-person, singular, subordinate-clause
- vorkamt
- indicative, plural, preterite, second-person, subordinate-clause
Subjunctive
- käme vor
- past, subjunctive
- komme vor
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- kommen vor
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- kommest vor
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- kommet vor
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i
- kämen vor
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- kämest vor
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- kämst vor
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- kämet vor
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- kämt vor
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii
- vorkomme
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- vorkommen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- vorkommest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- vorkommet
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-i, subordinate-clause
- vorkäme
- first-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- vorkämen
- first-person, plural, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- vorkämest
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- vorkämst
- second-person, singular, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- vorkämet
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- vorkämt
- plural, second-person, subjunctive, subjunctive-ii, subordinate-clause
- sei vorgekommen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, subjunctive
- seien vorgekommen
- first-person, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, subjunctive
- seist vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiest vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- seiet vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
- wäre vorgekommen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular, subjunctive
- wären vorgekommen
- first-person, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, subjunctive
- wärst vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärest vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive
- wärt vorgekommen
- multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive
Imperative
- komm vor
- imperative, second-person, singular
- komme vor
- imperative, second-person, singular
- kommt vor
- imperative, plural, second-person
Participle
- vorgekommen
- participle, past
- vorkommend
- participle, present
Infinitive
- vorkommen
- infinitive
- vorzukommen
- infinitive, infinitive-zu
Other
- bin vorgekommen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular
- sind vorgekommen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural
- bist vorgekommen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, second-person, singular
- seid vorgekommen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, plural, second-person
- ist vorgekommen
- indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, singular, third-person
- war vorgekommen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, singular
- waren vorgekommen
- first-person, indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural
- warst vorgekommen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, second-person, singular
- wart vorgekommen
- indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect, plural, second-person
- vorkommen werden
- future, future-i, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde vorkommen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden vorkommen
- first-person, future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst vorkommen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet vorkommen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird vorkommen
- future, future-i, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person
- vorgekommen sein werden
- future, future-ii, infinitive, multiword-construction
- werde vorgekommen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular
- werden vorgekommen sein
- first-person, future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural
- wirst vorgekommen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, second-person, singular
- werdet vorgekommen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, plural, second-person
- wird vorgekommen sein
- future, future-ii, indicative, multiword-construction, singular, third-person