separierten

Separierten is the simple past tense form (Präteritum) of the German verb separieren, meaning to separate or to isolate components of a mixture, group, or dataset. In ordinary usage, separieren is a technical or formal term often found in scientific, laboratory, or analytical contexts. The form separierten specifically corresponds to the third-person plural subject, as in sie separierten, and is used to describe a completed action in the past: “They separated.” The corresponding present tense forms include separieren (infinitive), separieren conjugated as sie separieren, and the simple past form for other subjects follows standard German conjugation patterns.

Conjugation overview

- Infinitive: separieren

- Präteritum (simple past): ich separierte, du separiertest, er/se betre, wir separierten, ihr separiertet, sie separierten

- Participle: separiert (used with haben to form the present perfect: sie haben separiert)

- Imperative forms and passive constructions are also possible with separieren, depending on sentence structure.

Usage and nuance

Separieren is typically used in technical, scientific, or data-analytic contexts to describe the act of separating a mixture into components, or of isolating subsets of data or objects. The past tense form separierten appears in narratives or reports detailing past procedures, experiments, or procedures performed by multiple subjects or teams. In everyday German, more common synonyms are trennten or entfernten, depending on the precise sense, but separieren remains preferred in specialized language.

See also

Related terms include die Separierung, die Trennung, and das Separatverfahren, which describe the act or method of separation in more general or technical terms.