klauen
Appearance
See also: Klauen
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier kläuen, from Middle High German kleuen, klæwen, from Old High German klawēn, chlawēn, klawjan, from Proto-Germanic *klawjaną. Later remodelled after and related to Klaue (“claw”), that is “to grab with one’s claws”. The sense “to steal” originated in West Central German and Low Franconian, and is supposed to have been spread among soldiers during World War I.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]klauen (weak, third-person singular present klaut, past tense klaute, past participle geklaut, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive or intransitive, somewhat informal) to steal [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘from someone’]
- 1993, “Alles nur geklaut”, performed by Die Prinzen:
- Das ist alles nur geklaut und gestohlen, nur gezogen und geraubt / Entschuldigung, das hab' ich mir erlaubt
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- Klauen is the most common word for “to steal” in colloquial German. Written standard German generally prefers stehlen, although klauen is also seen here and there.
- The syntactical construction is identical to that of stehlen (see there).
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | klauen | ||||
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present participle | klauend | ||||
past participle | geklaut | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich klaue | wir klauen | i | ich klaue | wir klauen |
du klaust | ihr klaut | du klauest | ihr klauet | ||
er klaut | sie klauen | er klaue | sie klauen | ||
preterite | ich klaute | wir klauten | ii | ich klaute1 | wir klauten1 |
du klautest | ihr klautet | du klautest1 | ihr klautet1 | ||
er klaute | sie klauten | er klaute1 | sie klauten1 | ||
imperative | klau (du) klaue (du) |
klaut (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “klauen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “klauen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “klauen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “klauen” in Duden online
- “klauen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Luxembourgish
[edit]Verb
[edit]klauen (third-person singular present klaut, past participle geklaut, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (transitive or intransitive) to steal, to nick, to pinch
Synonyms
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