kontaktierte

Kontaktierte is a German verb form and represents the simple past tense (Präteritum) of the verb kontaktieren, meaning to contact or get in touch with someone. The verb kontaktieren is a regular weak verb formed from the noun Kontakt with the -ieren suffix, and it is commonly used in both everyday and formal communication to describe initiating contact.

In the Präteritum, the standard conjugation is: ich kontaktierte, du kontaktiertest, er/sie/es kontaktierte, wir kontaktierten, ihr kontaktiertet, sie/Sie kontaktierten. The form kontaktierte without an explicit subject can function as “contacted” in narrative prose, depending on context. The corresponding past participle is kontaktiert, which is used with haben to form the present perfect tense (ich habe kontaktiert).

Usage and style notes: In everyday spoken German, the Perfekt (ich habe kontaktiert) is typically more common for past actions than the Präteritum, especially in informal speech or southern dialects. Kontaktierte, as a past-tense form, is more often found in written narrative, reports, or formal text.

Relation to related terms: The noun Kontakt refers to the act or instance of contact, and the related verb form kontaktiert (Partizip II) is used to describe a completed action of contacting someone in the past with auxiliary haben. The term is part of a broader set of German verbs formed from loaned roots with the -ieren suffix, and it preserves standard German tense and conjugation patterns.