Evaluierten

Evaluierten is the Präteritum (simple past) form of the German verb evaluieren, and it can also reflect an older or regional spelling evaluieren. It is used with plural subjects to describe a past action of evaluating, as in Sie evaluierten die Ergebnisse.

The verb evaluieren means to evaluate, assess, or determine the value or quality of something. It is a loanword of French évaluer and is common in business, science, administration, and project work. In standard modern German, the more common past-tense form is evaluierten, and the past participle is evaluiert.

Orthography and variants: Evaluieren is the preferred modern spelling in most contexts. The form evaluierten appears mainly in texts that use the older variant evaluieren or in regional spellings. Some dictionaries acknowledge evaluierten as a historical or less common variant, while recommending evaluierten for the standard past tense.

Grammatical notes: Evaluieren is a regular verb of the -ieren class. Its principal parts are present evaluieren, simple past evaluierten (for plural subjects) or evaluierte (for singular), and past participle evaluiert. Because of the close similarity of spellings, care is sometimes required to distinguish evaluieren/evaluierten/evaluiert from forms such as evaluieren/evaluiert.

See also: evaluation, evaluierung, Sprachgebrauch (German usage)