schlürfen
See also: schlurfen
German
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /ˈʃlʏʁfn̩/
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Verb
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
Conjugation of schlürfen (weak, auxiliary haben)
| infinitive | schlürfen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Composed forms of schlürfen (weak, auxiliary haben)
References
- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “schlürfen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
- “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