bietet

Bietet is the third-person singular present tense form of the German verb bieten, meaning to offer or to provide. The verb is typically used with a direct object in the accusative and can describe both concrete offerings (goods, services) and more abstract possibilities (opportunities). Intransitive uses include the impersonal phrase es bietet sich an, meaning it presents itself or it would be advisable to.

Conjugation and forms: present tense forms are ich biete, du bietest, er bietet, wir bieten, ihr bietet, sie bieten. The simple past (preterite) is bot, botest, bot, boten, botet, boten. The past participle is geboten, used with haben to form the perfect: ich habe geboten. The future is formed with werden: ich werde bieten. The imperative forms are biete (du), bietet (ihr), bieten Sie (Sie).

Usage notes: anbieten and bieten are related but subtly different. bieten emphasizes the act of presenting something available, while anbieten specifically means to offer something (often in a proactive sense). Bieten can take a dative indirect object and an accusative direct object, as in ich biete dir einen Kaffee. In marketing, hospitality, and public services, bietet frequently appears in phrases such as das Hotel bietet WLAN or die Stadt bietet Führungen. The impersonal Es bietet sich an is a common construction to recommend an action.

Etymology and related terms: bieten comes from the Germanic family of verbs and has cognates in Dutch bieden. It is contrasted with other verbs like anbieten (to offer something proactively) and geboten (the past participle).

See also: bieten, anbieten, Gebot.