ziemen
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German zëmen, Old High German zëman. Cognate with Old Saxon tëman (archaic English teem), Dutch betamen (“to be proper, suit”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (gatiman).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ziemen (weak, third-person singular present ziemt, past tense ziemte, past participle geziemt, auxiliary haben)
- (dated) to beseem, to be appropriate, to befit
- 1899, Fanny zu Reventlow, Viragines oder Hetären[1]:
- Darüber, was Frauen ziemt, sind die Ansichten wohl noch nie so weit auseinander gegangen wie in unseren Tagen, wo die Emanzipation und gleichzeitig die Modernität auf erotischem Gebiet immer weitere Kreise zieht […]
- The views about that which is appropriate for women have probably never been as diverse as in our days, where emancipation and modernity simultaneously affect ever broader circles in erotic matters […]
Conjugation edit
| infinitive | ziemen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | ziemend | ||||
| past participle | geziemt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | — | — | i | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es ziemt | — | es zieme | — | ||
| preterite | — | — | ii | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es ziemte | — | es ziemte1 | — | ||
| imperative | — | — | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
| perfect | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| indicative | — | — | subjunctive | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es hat geziemt | — | es habe geziemt | — | ||
| pluperfect | |||||
| indicative | — | — | subjunctive | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es hatte geziemt | — | es hätte geziemt | — | ||
| future i | |||||
| infinitive | ziemen werden | subjunctive i | — | — | |
| — | — | ||||
| es werde ziemen | — | ||||
| indicative | — | — | subjunctive ii | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es wird ziemen | — | es würde ziemen | — | ||
| future ii | |||||
| infinitive | geziemt haben werden | subjunctive i | — | — | |
| — | — | ||||
| es werde geziemt haben | — | ||||
| indicative | — | — | subjunctive ii | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| es wird geziemt haben | — | es würde geziemt haben | — | ||
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “ziemen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891