tauchen
See also: Tauchen
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German tūchen, touchen, from Old High German -tūhhan, from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan.
Cognate to Dutch duiken, Swedish dyka. The word had become obsolete in Upper German, but was later reintroduced on the basis of Central German dūchen, tūchen and Middle Low German dūken, which had remained common. In the course of this process, the originally strong verb became weak. A derivative with Low German consonantism is ducken (cognate to and synonymous with English duck).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tauchen (weak, third-person singular present taucht, past tense tauchte, past participle getaucht, auxiliary haben or sein)
- to dive
- (transitive, figuratively) to immerse, to bathe, to submerge
- Die Äpfel in heißem Karamell tauchen, dann abkühlen lassen.
- Bathe the apples in hot caramel, then let them cool.
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 22/2010, page 133:
- Die Sonne steht inzwischen tief und taucht die Landschaft in ein sanftes Licht.
- By now the sun is low and bathes the landscape in a gentle light.
Conjugation edit
infinitive | tauchen | ||||
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present participle | tauchend | ||||
past participle | getaucht | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich tauche | wir tauchen | i | ich tauche | wir tauchen |
du tauchst | ihr taucht | du tauchest | ihr tauchet | ||
er taucht | sie tauchen | er tauche | sie tauchen | ||
preterite | ich tauchte | wir tauchten | ii | ich tauchte1 | wir tauchten1 |
du tauchtest | ihr tauchtet | du tauchtest1 | ihr tauchtet1 | ||
er tauchte | sie tauchten | er tauchte1 | sie tauchten1 | ||
imperative | tauch (du) tauche (du) |
taucht (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms edit
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