kaufen
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German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- käufen (regional, nonstandard)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German koufen, from Old High German koufōn, from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kaufen (weak, third-person singular present kauft, past tense kaufte, past participle gekauft, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to buy, to purchase
- Sie kauft ein Auto. ― She is buying a car.
- Ich glaube, wir haben zu viel gekauft. ― I think we bought too much.
- (ditransitive) to buy, to purchase for someone
- Ich kaufe meinem Sohn einen Computer. ― I'm buying my son a computer.
- Ich kaufe mir ein Eis. ― I'm buying (myself) some ice cream.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | kaufen | ||||
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present participle | kaufend | ||||
past participle | gekauft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich kaufe | wir kaufen | i | ich kaufe | wir kaufen |
du kaufst | ihr kauft | du kaufest | ihr kaufet | ||
er kauft | sie kaufen | er kaufe | sie kaufen | ||
preterite | ich kaufte | wir kauften | ii | ich kaufte1 | wir kauften1 |
du kauftest | ihr kauftet | du kauftest1 | ihr kauftet1 | ||
er kaufte | sie kauften | er kaufte1 | sie kauften1 | ||
imperative | kauf (du) kaufe (du) |
kauft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kaufen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “kaufen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “kaufen” in Duden online
- “kaufen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “kaufen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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