versuchst

Versuchst is the second-person singular present tense form of the German verb versuchen, meaning to try, attempt, or test. It is used when addressing someone informally as “you try” or “you are trying to do something.”

Conjugation and usage. The present tense forms of versuchen are: ich versuche, du versuchst, er versucht, wir versuchen, ihr versucht, sie versuchen. In everyday speech you can say, for example, Du versuchst es. Du versuchst, pünktlich zu sein. Du versuchst, mir zu helfen. Versuchen is commonly followed by an infinitive clause, often with zu: Ich versuche, das Problem zu lösen; Du versuchst, mir zu helfen. The construction with zu allows you to express the aim of the attempt.

Form and nuance. Versuchen is used for both personal attempts and experimentation, including testing hypotheses or methods. It also appears in the perfect tense with the past participle versuchte or versucht, depending on regional usage: Ich habe es versucht. The imperative forms differ: Versuch! is the informal singular; Versucht! for informal plural; Versuchen Sie! for formal.

Etymology and related terms. The verb is built from suchen (to seek) with the prefix ver-, giving the sense of attempting. The noun Versuch means an attempt or an experiment, and is closely related to the verb.

Synonyms and related phrases. Common near-synonyms include probieren and versuchen differ slightly in nuance: probieren is often used for practical testing or sampling, while versuchen emphasizes an intentional effort or trial to achieve a result.