verb
to pour, to water (plants), to cast (metal)
B1
gießen means 'to pour', 'to water (plants)' or 'to cast (metal)'. It's a strong irregular verb: preterite goss, participle gegossen. Uses auxiliary haben. Not reflexive. Present vowel 'ie' changes to 'o' in the past. Imperative singular: gieß. Participle used in passive: gegossen worden.
Examples
Der Gärtner goss die Blumen früh am Morgen, bevor die Hitze des Tages einsetzte.
The gardener watered the flowers early in the morning before the heat of the day set in.
Ich habe den Kaffee gegossen.
I poured the coffee.
Sie goss die Pflanzen.
She watered the plants.
Details
Mnemonics
Picture a watering can pouring water in slow motion, the 'ie' in gießen like a long stream
sounds like 'gee-sen' — imagine saying 'Gee, send the water' to remember pouring
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Notes
Commonly used for pouring liquids and for watering plants. Also used in technical contexts (metal casting). Remember stem vowel change in past forms (gießen — goss — gegossen). Formal imperative (Sie) is not provided here because pronouns are disallowed in conjugation fields; the informal imperatives are given without pronouns.