Verbformen
Grundform
/hɪər/
Past Simple
/hɜːrd/
Past Participle
/hɜːrd/
Beispielsätze
Grundform · hear
- I hear birds singing outside my window every morning.
Past Simple · heard
- We heard a strange noise coming from the basement.
- They heard it again the following morning.
- He didn't hear anything at the meeting.
- Did you hear it before lunch?
Past Participle · heard
- Have you heard the news about the new school?
- She has just heard the very same thing.
- By the time we arrived, they had heard everything.
- We have never heard anything quite like it.
Häufige Kollokationen
hear from
to receive news from someone
hear about
to learn news of something
Wichtige Zeiten
| Simple Present | Simple Past | Present Perfect |
|---|---|---|
I hear he / she / it hears | I heard | I have heard |
| Present Continuous:I am hearing · he / she / it is hearing | ||
Grammatikleitfaden
The verb "hear" follows the ABB pattern: the past simple and past participle share one form ("heard"), while the base form ("hear") is different. ABB is the most common pattern among English irregular verbs — roughly half of all irregulars fall here, so mastering this group pays dividends across the whole language.
Use the past simple "heard" to talk about a completed action or event at a definite moment in the past. It stands alone as the main verb — no auxiliary is needed. Common accompanying time expressions include yesterday, last week, ago, and when: "She heard the whole report by herself." The action is seen as finished and anchored to a specific past time.
The past participle "heard" always works together with an auxiliary verb. It appears in: (1) the present perfect with have/has — "I have heard this several times before"; (2) the past perfect with had — "By the time we called, they had already heard"; (3) passive voice — "The decision was heard by the board." Never use "heard" as a standalone past-tense verb without an auxiliary.
Memory tip: because "heard" and "heard" are the same, you only need to memorise one past form. Many ABB verbs follow recognisable sound shifts — a large group ends in -ought (bring→brought, buy→bought, catch→caught, fight→fought, seek→sought, teach→taught, think→thought), and another group shows a vowel shift plus -t (feel→felt, keep→kept, leave→left, mean→meant, sleep→slept). Identifying which sub-group "hear" belongs to can make the form easier to remember long-term.
Kurzes Quiz
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Konjugationsmuster
Past Simple und Past Participle haben dieselbe Form.