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See also: Schlücken
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German slucken, from Old High German (attested in the derived noun slucko (“glutton”)), probably ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Dutch slokken.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]schlucken (weak, third-person singular present schluckt, past tense schluckte, past participle geschluckt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive or intransitive) to swallow
- (intransitive) to gulp (swallow one's spittle out of fear etc.)
- (transitive, figurative) to gobble up (annex, e.g. another company)
- (transitive, figurative) to swallow; to accept; to put up with
- (transitive, figurative) to buy, to be deceived by
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | schlucken | ||||
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present participle | schluckend | ||||
past participle | geschluckt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich schlucke | wir schlucken | i | ich schlucke | wir schlucken |
du schluckst | ihr schluckt | du schluckest | ihr schlucket | ||
er schluckt | sie schlucken | er schlucke | sie schlucken | ||
preterite | ich schluckte | wir schluckten | ii | ich schluckte1 | wir schluckten1 |
du schlucktest | ihr schlucktet | du schlucktest1 | ihr schlucktet1 | ||
er schluckte | sie schluckten | er schluckte1 | sie schluckten1 | ||
imperative | schluck (du) schlucke (du) |
schluckt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “schlucken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schlucken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “schlucken” in Duden online
- schlucken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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