German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German üeben, uoben, from Old High German uobēn, from Proto-Germanic *ōbijaną (to do, practise).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈyːbən/
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  • Hyphenation: üben

Verb edit

üben (weak, third-person singular present übt, past tense übte, past participle geübt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to practise, to drill, to train
    Meine Tochter übt Klavier.
    My daughter is practicing piano.
  2. (transitive) to exercise, to put into practice
    Wenn wir fortfahren, müssen wir Vorsicht üben.
    If we proceed, we must exercise caution.
  3. (reflexive, with in + dative) to practise (doing something)
    Du solltest dich in Rechtschreibung üben.
    You should practice spelling.

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Further reading edit

  • üben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • üben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • üben” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883) “üben”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891