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schimpfen
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German schimpfen, from Old High German skimpfen, from Proto-West Germanic *skimpijan. Cognate with dialectal English skimp (“to make fun of, scoff at”), Dutch schimpen (“to mock, scold”).
Pronunciation
Verb
schimpfen (weak, third-person singular present schimpft, past tense schimpfte, past participle geschimpft, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to tell off, to scold, to yell at [with mit (+ dative) ‘someone’]
- (intransitive) to complain, to grouse, to bitch, to curse [with über (+ accusative) or auf (+ accusative) ‘about someone/something’]
- (transitive, slightly derogatory) to call [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘an idiot or other derogatory term or name’]
- Synonym: nennen
- (transitive, accusative reflexive, slightly derogatory) to call oneself [with nominative or accusative ‘something considered derogatory’]
- Synonym: nennen
- Er hat keine Ahnung von der Materie - und so jemand schimpft sich Experte! ― He is clueless in that field - and someone like that calls himself an expert!
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- ausschimpfen
- beschimpfen
- Geschimpfe
- Schimpf
- Schimpfen
- schimpfend
- Schimpfer
- Schimpferei
- schimpflich
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