See also: Stempeln

German edit

Etymology edit

Stempel +‎ -en.

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Verb edit

stempeln (weak, third-person singular present stempelt, past tense stempelte, past participle gestempelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to stamp
  2. to postmark
  3. (arriving) to clock in (US), clock on (UK), to punch in (US); (leaving) to clock out (US), clock off (UK), to punch out (US) (to enter or leave a workplace by punching a time card)

Usage notes edit

  • "stempeln" or "stempeln gehen" (to go stamp) also may mean to have no job and to get help from the state (so called "Stempelgeld" = "Arbeitslosengeld") for unemployed people.

Conjugation edit

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Further reading edit

  • stempeln” in Duden online
  • stempeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache