Betreuten

Betreuten is a German verb form—the simple past (Präteritum) of betreuen. The verb betreuen means to supervise, take care of, or manage people, tasks, or projects. In everyday language it is used in professional, educational, medical, and administrative contexts to describe caring for or guiding someone or something.

As a conjugated form, betreuten appears in the Präteritum for the first-person plural (wir betreuten) and the third-person plural (sie betreuten). It is not the form used for the second-person plural; that form is betreutet. The present tense form is betreuen (ich betreue, du betreust, er betreut, wir betreuen, ihr betreut, sie betreuen), and the past participle is betreut.

Examples of usage include: Wir betreuten mehrere Klienten während des Projekts. Die Lehrer betreuten die Schüler bei dem Ausflug. In a narrative, one might write: Die Betreuer betreuten die Bewohner rund um die Uhr. The word is transitive, typically taking a direct object in the accusative or dative, depending on construction.

Etymology is formed with the be- prefix added to the base betreu-, a verb stem related to caring and supervision in German. The term is widely used in social, educational, healthcare, and organizational contexts to convey ongoing responsibility for people or operations in the past.