Jump to content

schlürfen

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: schlurfen

German

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

An onomatopoeic formation, perhaps somehow related, or of similar formation logic, to Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ- (to sip, suck in). Cognate with Dutch slurpen (whence also English slurp).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

IPA(key): /ˈʃlʏʁfn̩/

  • Audio:(file)

Verb

[edit]

schlürfen (weak, third-person singular present schlürft, past tense schlürfte, past participle geschlürft, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to slurp; to sip loudly
    Er schlürfte an seinem Tee.
    He was sipping his tea.

Conjugation

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “schlürfen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading

[edit]