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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch scheiden, from Old Dutch skeithan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

scheiden

  1. (transitive) to separate
  2. (intransitive) to divorce

Conjugation

More information Conjugation of (weak with strong past participle), infinitive ...

Derived terms

adjectives
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Descendants

  • Afrikaans: skei
  • Negerhollands: skeid, skei, skee, skej
  • Petjo: scheien, schejen
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German

Etymology

From Middle High German scheiden, from Old High German sceidan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan.

See also Dutch scheiden, West Frisian skiede, and English shed. Outside Germanic, see Irish scian (“knife”), Lithuanian ski̇́esti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic чѣдити (čěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), and Sanskrit च्यति (cyati, “he cuts off”).

Pronunciation

Verb

scheiden (class 1 strong, third-person singular present scheidet, past tense schied, past participle geschieden, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive, dated, literary) to separate
  2. (intransitive or reflexive, dated, literary) to leave one another; to part; to be separated; to be divided
  3. (transitive) to dissolve (a marriage); to divorce (a couple)
    Der Richter weigerte sich, die Ehe zu scheiden. ― The judge refused to dissolve the marriage.
  4. (transitive, with lassen) to have (a marriage) dissolved
    Sie wollen ihre Ehe scheiden lassen. ― They want to dissolve their marriage.
  5. (reflexive, with lassen) to divorce (one's spouse); to get a divorce (from one's spouse)
    Meine Frau will sich von mir scheiden lassen. ― My wife wants to divorce me.

Usage notes

  • The perfect auxiliary is haben in transitive and reflexive uses, and always in constructions with lassen. In intransitive uses, the auxiliary is sein, but such instances are rare in contemporary German. Note that in a phrase like Sie ist geschieden (“She's divorced”), the verb sein is the copula, not the perfect auxiliary.
  • The present participle scheidend has an idiomatic sense “retiring, resigning, about to be replaced”: der scheidende Vorstandsvorsitzende — “the retiring CEO”.

Conjugation

Conjugation of scheiden (class 1 strong, auxiliary haben or sein)
More information infinitive, present participle ...

1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

Composed forms of scheiden (class 1 strong, auxiliary haben or sein)
More information perfect, singular ...

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “scheiden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “scheiden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “scheiden” in Duden online
  • “scheiden” in OpenThesaurus.de
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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch skeithan.

Verb

scheiden

  1. to separate
  2. to dissolve, to break up
  3. to divide (up)
  4. to decide, to put an end to

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

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