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scheuern
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German
Etymology
An originally Central and Low German word, from northern Middle High German schiuren and Middle Low German schǖren (both 14th c.). Further origin uncertain, but probably from Old French escurer (“to clean off”), from Late Latin excurare (literally “to treat thoroughly”), from Latin ex- + curare. If so, borrowed through Middle Dutch schuren (13th c., modern schuren), otherwise cognate with it. See English scour for more.
Pronunciation
Verb
scheuern (weak, third-person singular present scheuert, past tense scheuerte, past participle gescheuert, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to scrub, scour (wash by rubbing with force)
- Synonym: schrubben
- (transitive or intransitive) to chafe, fret (to wear or hurt by rubbing) [with accusative ‘someone’; or with accusative or dative ‘someone’, along with an (+ dative) ‘somewhere’]
- Der Rucksack scheuert mich. ― The backpack is chafing me.
- Der Rucksack scheuert mich/mir am Rücken. ― The backpack is chafing my back.
- Die Tür scheuert am Boden. ― The door is chafing on the ground.
- 2025 September 3, dpa, “Saugen oder wischen? Wie Sie Polstermöbel richtig pflegen”, in Möbelwelten, Beilage zum Westfalen-Blatt, number 3, page 3:
- Bereits kleinste Krümel und Steinchen können die Textilfasern beschädigen, wenn man sie mit dem Hintern, dem Arm oder Hinterkopf über die Möbeloberfläche scheuert.
- Even the most minute crumblets or stonelets are capable to damage the textile fibres, if the surface of the furniture is chafed by action of the nates, an arm, or the back of the head.
- (transitive or reflexive) to rub (oneself or a body part) on something
- Synonym: reiben
- Das Pferd scheuert seinen Hals am Zaun. ― The horse is rubbing its neck at the fence.
- Das Pferd scheuert sich am Zaun. ― The horse is rubbing itself at the fence.
- (colloquial) to slap [with eine]
- Synonyms: eine runterhauen, eine knallen, eine Ohrfeige/Backpfeife/Schelle geben, ohrfeigen, (Austria, Bavaria) watschen
- Sie hat ihm eine gescheuert. ― She slapped him.
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- abscheuern
- bescheuert
- durchscheuern
- Scheuerlappen
- Scheuersand
- Scheuerschwamm
- Scheuertuch
- wegscheuern
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