beschweren
German
Etymology
From Middle High German beswæren (“to afflict, to depress, to annoy”), from Old High German biswāren (“to depress, to burden”) (10th c.), from swāren (“heavy”) (8th c.) whence schwer. The reflexive sense developed later in the 14th century from "to burden oneself", "to fret" to "to complain about something worrisome, burdensome".[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈʃveːʁən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: be‧schwe‧ren
- Rhymes: -eːʀən
Verb
beschweren (weak, third-person singular present beschwert, past tense beschwerte, past participle beschwert, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
Conjugation of beschweren (weak, auxiliary haben)
infinitive | beschweren | ||||
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present participle | beschwerend | ||||
past participle | beschwert | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich beschwere | wir beschweren | i | ich beschwere | wir beschweren |
du beschwerst | ihr beschwert | du beschwerest | ihr beschweret | ||
er beschwert | sie beschweren | er beschwere | sie beschweren | ||
preterite | ich beschwerte | wir beschwerten | ii | ich beschwerte1 | wir beschwerten1 |
du beschwertest | ihr beschwertet | du beschwertest1 | ihr beschwertet1 | ||
er beschwerte | sie beschwerten | er beschwerte1 | sie beschwerten1 | ||
imperative | beschwer (du) beschwere (du) |
beschwert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of beschweren (weak, auxiliary haben)
Derived terms
- Beschweren, Beschwerung, Beschwerde
- beschwerend, beschwert
Related terms
References
- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “beschweren”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
- “beschweren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “beschweren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “beschweren” in Duden online
- “beschweren” in OpenThesaurus.de
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