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reiten

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German rīten, from Old High German rītan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną. A Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- preform does not exist, only northwest-European forms.

Cognate with Dutch rijden, Low German rieden, English ride, Danish ride, Swedish rida.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯tən/
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Verb

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reiten (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reitet, past tense ritt, past participle geritten, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (intransitive) to ride; to do horseriding [auxiliary sein]
  2. (transitive) to ride (someone or something), to ride on the back of [auxiliary haben]
    • 1997, Rammstein, Sehnsucht:
      Lass mich deine Träne reiten übers Kinn nach Afrika
      Let me ride your tear over your chin to Africa

Usage notes

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  • In intransitive use, the normal auxiliary is sein. When referring to horseriding as a sport, haben is possible alternatively: “Ich habe früher geritten.”
  • For transitive use, prescriptive grammar requires haben: “Er hat das Pferd geritten”; but “Er ist das Pferd geritten” is also common in practice.

Conjugation

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  • In dialectal or archaic usage the third-person singular of the present may be reit (also spelt reit't).

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: ridowac

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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reiten

  1. definite singular of reit

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛɪːtən/, /ˈrɛɪːtn̩/

Noun

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reiten m

  1. definite singular of reit

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²rɛɪːtən/, /²rɛɪːtn̩/

Adjective

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reiten (neuter reite, definite singular and plural reitne)

  1. quarrelsome, mocking
    • 1951, Halldor O. Opedal, Makter og menneske: folkeminne ifrå Hardanger, volume 7, Oslo: Norsk folkeminnelag, page 175:
      På marknaden fór der nokre reitne tatrar og jaola seg
      At the marketplace, some gipsys went about and wreaking havoc

References

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  • “reiten”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016