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containern
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See also: Containern
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
containern (weak, third-person singular present containert, past tense containerte, past participle containert, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to dumpster dive
- Synonyms: mülltauchen, dumpstern
- 2019 June 3, Annika Lasarzik, “"Ich esse, was andere wegwerfen"”, in Die Zeit:
- Sie ist bei Foodsharing Hamburg aktiv und containert seit vier Jahren. Hier erzählt sie, wie es ist, sich sein Essen aus anderer Leute Mülltonnen zu fischen.
- She's active in Foodsharing Hamburg and has been dumpster diving for four years. Here she tells us what it's like to fish your food out of other people's trash cans.
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
- “containern” in Duden online
- “containern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “containern”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
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Noun
containern
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