German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German beswæren (to afflict, to depress, to annoy), from Old High German biswāren (to depress, to burden) (10th c.), from swāren (heavy) (8th c.) whence schwer. The reflexive sense developed later in the 14th century from "to burden oneself", "to fret" to "to complain about something worrisome, burdensome".[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bəˈʃveːʁən/
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  • Hyphenation: be‧schwe‧ren
  • Rhymes: -eːʀən

Verb edit

beschweren (weak, third-person singular present beschwert, past tense beschwerte, past participle beschwert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to weight, to weight down
  2. (reflexive) to complain

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References edit

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “beschweren”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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