hätte Learn Unstarted Summary The German translation for “had” is hätte. Examples of "had" in use There are 2 examples of the German word for "had" being used: Recording English German Learn I almost forgot. Fast hätte ich es vergessen. Learn he said I hadn’t taken my responsibility er sagte, ich hätte meine Verantwortung nicht wahrgenommen Learn Practice Lesson "had" Practice (2) Lesson Learn Lesson words had etc. View all lesson words Lesson phrases I almost forgot. etc. View all lesson phrases Acknowledgements Audio Google text-to-speech