beschweren
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German beswæren (“to afflict, to depress, to annoy”), a merger from Old High German biswāren (“to depress, to burden”) (10th c.), from Proto-West Germanic *biswârijan; and Old High German biswārōn (“to burden”) (10th c.), from Proto-West Germanic *biswārōn. Related to swāren (“heavy”) (8th c.) whence schwer. The reflexive sense developed later in the 14th century from "to burden oneself", "to fret" to "to complain about something worrisome, burdensome".[1] Cognate with Dutch bezwaren.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]beschweren (weak, third-person singular present beschwert, past tense beschwerte, past participle beschwert, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | beschweren | ||||
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present participle | beschwerend | ||||
past participle | beschwert | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich beschwere | wir beschweren | i | ich beschwere | wir beschweren |
du beschwerst | ihr beschwert | du beschwerest | ihr beschweret | ||
er beschwert | sie beschweren | er beschwere | sie beschweren | ||
preterite | ich beschwerte | wir beschwerten | ii | ich beschwerte1 | wir beschwerten1 |
du beschwertest | ihr beschwertet | du beschwertest1 | ihr beschwertet1 | ||
er beschwerte | sie beschwerten | er beschwerte1 | sie beschwerten1 | ||
imperative | beschwer (du) beschwere (du) |
beschwert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “beschweren”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “beschweren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “beschweren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “beschweren” in Duden online
- “beschweren” in OpenThesaurus.de
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- German 3-syllable words
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