stehe

Stehe is the first-person singular present tense form of the German verb stehen, meaning to stand or to be located. It is used to indicate a person or object in an upright position or at a certain place, as in Ich stehe hier (I am standing here) or Wir stehen vor dem Haus (We are in front of the house). In addition to physical position, stehen can express existence or status in phrases like Das steht dir gut (That suits you) or Wer steht heute früh auf? (Who gets up early today?).

Conjugation and forms are typical of a strong verb root dann with a vowel change in the second person singular and other persons. Present tense: ich stehe, du stehst, er/sie/es steht, wir stehen, ihr steht, sie/Sie stehen. Imperative forms are steh! (du), steht! (ihr), stehen Sie (Sie). Simple past (Präteritum): ich stand, du standest, er stand, wir standen, ihr standet, sie standen. Past participle: gestanden, used with the auxiliary haben, as in Ich habe gestanden. Future tense can be formed with werden: ich werde stehen.

Stehen participates in many common constructions. Separable-prefix verbs such as aufstehen mean to get up (Ich stehe früh auf), stehen bleiben means to stay standing or to stop moving, and gegenüberstehen means to face or confront. The verb also appears in idiomatic expressions about suitability or appearance: Das steht dir gut (That suits you). It is related in form to other German verbs with stand stems, though some compounds have different meanings, such as bestehen (to exist or to pass). Etymologically, stehen derives from the Germanic root for standing, shared with related terms in other Germanic languages.