hüpfen
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See also: hupfen
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hüpfen, hupfen, from Proto-Germanic *huppijaną. Related with English hop and Dutch hippen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hüpfen (weak, third-person singular present hüpft, past tense hüpfte, past participle gehüpft, auxiliary sein)
- (intransitive) to hop, to skip, to bounce (of a ball)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to jump (for joy), to bob (on the water), etc.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | hüpfen | ||||
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present participle | hüpfend | ||||
past participle | gehüpft | ||||
auxiliary | sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich hüpfe | wir hüpfen | i | ich hüpfe | wir hüpfen |
du hüpfst | ihr hüpft | du hüpfest | ihr hüpfet | ||
er hüpft | sie hüpfen | er hüpfe | sie hüpfen | ||
preterite | ich hüpfte | wir hüpften | ii | ich hüpfte1 | wir hüpften1 |
du hüpftest | ihr hüpftet | du hüpftest1 | ihr hüpftet1 | ||
er hüpfte | sie hüpften | er hüpfte1 | sie hüpften1 | ||
imperative | hüpf (du) hüpfe (du) |
hüpft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hüpfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “hüpfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “hüpfen” in Duden online
- “hüpfen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “hüpfen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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