See also: Reiten

German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German rīten, from Old High German rītan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną. A Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- preform does not exist, only northwest-European forms.

Cognate with Dutch rijden, Low German rieden, English ride, Danish ride, Swedish rida.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯tən/
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Verb edit

reiten (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reitet, past tense ritt, past participle geritten, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (intransitive) to ride; to do horseriding [auxiliary sein]
  2. (transitive) to ride (someone or something), to ride on the back of [auxiliary haben]
    • 1997, Rammstein, Sehnsucht:
      Lass mich deine Träne reiten übers Kinn nach Afrika
      Let me ride your tear over your chin to Africa

Usage notes edit

  • In intransitive use, the normal auxiliary is sein. When referring to horseriding as a sport, haben is possible alternatively: “Ich habe früher geritten.”
  • For transitive use, prescriptive grammar requires haben: “Er hat das Pferd geritten”; but “Er ist das Pferd geritten” is also common in practice.

Conjugation edit

  • In dialectal or archaic usage the third-person singular of the present may be reit (also spelt reit't).

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Noun edit

reiten

  1. definite singular of reit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛɪːtən/, /ˈrɛɪːtn̩/

Noun edit

reiten m

  1. definite singular of reit

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /²rɛɪːtən/, /²rɛɪːtn̩/

Adjective edit

reiten (neuter reite, definite singular and plural reitne)

  1. quarrelsome, mocking
    • 1951, Halldor O. Opedal, Makter og menneske: folkeminne ifrå Hardanger, volume 7, Oslo: Norsk folkeminnelag, page 175:
      På marknaden fór der nokre reitne tatrar og jaola seg
      At the marketplace, some gipsys went about and wreaking havoc

References edit

  • “reiten”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016