hüten
See also: Hüten
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German hüeten, Old High German huoten (“to watch, take care”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan, see there for further etymology.
Cognate with Old Saxon hōdian, Old English hēdan, Dutch hoeden, English heed.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hüten (weak, third-person singular present hütet, past tense hütete, past participle gehütet, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to watch
- (of animals, transitive) to herd, to tend
- (reflexive, with vor + dative) to be wary, to watch out
Conjugation edit
infinitive | hüten | ||||
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present participle | hütend | ||||
past participle | gehütet | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich hüte | wir hüten | i | ich hüte | wir hüten |
du hütest | ihr hütet | du hütest | ihr hütet | ||
er hütet | sie hüten | er hüte | sie hüten | ||
preterite | ich hütete | wir hüteten | ii | ich hütete1 | wir hüteten1 |
du hütetest | ihr hütetet | du hütetest1 | ihr hütetet1 | ||
er hütete | sie hüteten | er hütete1 | sie hüteten1 | ||
imperative | hüt (du) hüte (du) |
hütet (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Danish: hytte
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “hüten”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891