reiten
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
Verb edit
reiten (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reitet, past tense ritt, past participle geritten, auxiliary haben or sein)
- (intransitive) to ride; to do horseriding [auxiliary sein]
- (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
infinitive | reiten | ||||
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present participle | reitend | ||||
past participle | geritten | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich reite | wir reiten | i | ich reite | wir reiten |
du reitest | ihr reitet | du reitest | ihr reitet | ||
er reitet | sie reiten | er reite | sie reiten | ||
preterite | ich ritt | wir ritten | ii | ich ritte1 | wir ritten1 |
du rittest du rittst |
ihr rittet | du rittest1 | ihr rittet1 | ||
er ritt | sie ritten | er ritte1 | sie ritten1 | ||
imperative | reit (du) reite (du) |
reitet (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
- In dialectal or archaic usage the third-person singular of the present may be reit (also spelt reit't).
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Further reading edit
- “reiten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “reiten” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “reiten” in Duden online
- “reiten” in OpenThesaurus.de
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
reiten
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reiten m
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
reiten (neuter reite, definite singular and plural reitne)
- 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