schlürfen
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See also: schlurfen
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Dutch slurpen (whence also English slurp).
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]schlürfen (weak, third-person singular present schlürft, past tense schlürfte, past participle geschlürft, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive or intransitive) to slurp; to sip loudly
- Er schlürfte an seinem Tee.
- He was sipping his tea.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | schlürfen | ||||
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present participle | schlürfend | ||||
past participle | geschlürft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich schlürfe | wir schlürfen | i | ich schlürfe | wir schlürfen |
du schlürfst | ihr schlürft | du schlürfest | ihr schlürfet | ||
er schlürft | sie schlürfen | er schlürfe | sie schlürfen | ||
preterite | ich schlürfte | wir schlürften | ii | ich schlürfte1 | wir schlürften1 |
du schlürftest | ihr schlürftet | du schlürftest1 | ihr schlürftet1 | ||
er schlürfte | sie schlürften | er schlürfte1 | sie schlürften1 | ||
imperative | schlürf (du) schlürfe (du) |
schlürft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “schlürfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schlürfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “schlürfen” in Duden online
- “schlürfen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “schlürfen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891