Bemerken (bemerkt) or merken (gemerkt)? Can anyone help with which is the correct form of ‘to notice’ to use in the following sentence; ‘He noticed a little dog’ ‘Er hat einen kleinen Hund bemerkt’ However, my tutor corrected this to ‘gemerkt’ which she said was because the sentence needed to be ‘transitive’. I’m new to German so my knowledge is not yet that good, but I understand a transitive verb needs an object to make sense, whereas a non transitive doesn’t. I think that my sentence is ‘transitive’ as it needs ‘the dog’ to make sense. However, I thought that ‘bemerkt’ was transitive and ‘gemerkt’ non transitive (the opposite to what my tutor is saying?) It seems I’m getting something wrong here as my tutor obviously has more knowledge than I do and hope that someone can help explain to me where I'm getting this wrong? Vielen Dank, Gem