geschaut

Geschaut is the past participle of the German verb schauen, meaning to look, to look at, or to watch. It forms the Perfekt (present perfect) with the auxiliary haben, as in ich habe geschaut, du hast geschaut, er hat geschaut. In addition to tenses, geschaut can appear in certain constructions and regional speech as part of the verb’s usual forms.

In usage, schauen often emphasizes the act of looking or viewing, sometimes with a sense of attention or duration. In standard German, sehen is more common when simply “to see,” while schauen conveys looking at something or watching over a period. The most natural way to express completed viewing in formal writing is often gesehen or ansehen/angesehen, for example, ich habe den Film gesehen or ich habe mir den Film angesehen. Nevertheless, geschaut remains widely used in everyday conversation, particularly for casual references to watching something like a film or a program.

Related forms and alternatives include the prefixed verb anschauen, whose past participle is angeschaut and which more explicitly means to look at or to inspect. Regional and stylistic variation can influence preference: einige Sprecher verwenden geschaut in colloquial speech where gesehen or angesehen would also be understood, while more formal contexts may favor gesehen or angesehen.

Summary: geschaut is a standard past participle of schauen, used mainly in the present perfect to indicate that someone has looked at or watched something. It carries a nuance of the act of viewing and coexists with synonyms such as gesehen and angesehen, depending on formality and context.