Wärmst

Wärmst is the second-person singular present tense form of the German verb wärmen. It means “you warm” or “you are warming (something).” The verb wärmen denotes making something warmer or heating it up, and is used in a wide range of contexts, from cooking to climate control.

Conjugation and forms in present tense

- ich wärme, du wärmst, er/sie/es wärmt, wir wärmen, ihr wärmt, sie/Sie wärmen.

In the simple past (Präteritum) it forms as: ich wärmte, du wärmtest, er wärmte, wir wärmten, ihr wärmten, sie wärmten.

The past participle is gewärmt, used with haben in perfect constructions: Ich habe die Suppe gewärmt.

Separable prefix usage

With the separable prefix auf- (“to heat up”), the verb becomes aufwärmen. In present tense you can say: Du wärmst das Essen auf. In sentential form it means you are warming up the food. The prefix appears as a separate element in the finite verb, while the participle form remains gewärmt (Ich habe das Essen aufgewärmt).

Usage notes

Wärmst is a regular verb form in the present tense and follows standard German conjugation patterns for weak verbs. It is easy to confuse with wärst, the Konjunktiv II form of sein (you would be). Phonetically, the umlaut ä signals a fronted vowel sound distinct from the plain a in related forms.

Etymology

Wärmen derives from the Germanic word for warm, related to the English word warm. The present tense forms, including wärmst, reflect the historical vowel shift that characterizes many German weak verbs with umlaut in the stem.