knistern
See also: Knistern
German
Etymology
From Middle Low German knisteren, gnisteren. Also a Central German and Dutch word; compare Middle Dutch gnisteren (but modern Dutch knisteren probably from German). Eventually onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈknɪstɐn/
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Verb
knistern (weak, third-person singular present knistert, past tense knisterte, past participle geknistert, auxiliary haben)
- to sizzle; to crackle; to creak; chiefly referring to the sound of fire, or of paper, aluminium, etc., being crumpled
- 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, pages 158–159:
- Als in dem grünlichen Kachelofen nach einiger Zeit die Holzscheite zu glimmen und zu knistern begannen, setzte er sich, noch immer im Pelz, auf den schwarzen, ans Bett gerückten breitlehnigen Lederstuhl.
- When after some time the logs in the greenish tiled stove started glowing and crackling, he sat down, still in the fur, on the black leather chair, which was moved next to the bed.
Conjugation
infinitive | knistern | ||||
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present participle | knisternd | ||||
past participle | geknistert | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich knistre ich knistere ich knister |
wir knistern | i | ich knistere ich knistre |
wir knistern |
du knisterst | ihr knistert | du knisterest du knistrest |
ihr knisteret ihr knistret | ||
er knistert | sie knistern | er knistere er knistre |
sie knistern | ||
preterite | ich knisterte | wir knisterten | ii | ich knisterte1 | wir knisterten1 |
du knistertest | ihr knistertet | du knistertest1 | ihr knistertet1 | ||
er knisterte | sie knisterten | er knisterte1 | sie knisterten1 | ||
imperative | knistre (du) knister (du) knistere (du) |
knistert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: knisteren
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