scheitern

See also: Scheitern

German

Etymology

From Middle High German schīt.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃaɪ̯tɐn/
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Verb

scheitern (weak, third-person singular present scheitert, past tense scheiterte, past participle gescheitert, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to fail, to conclude unsuccessfully
    Synonyms: missglücken; missraten; (Switzerland) fehlen
    Antonyms: gelingen, glücken
    Warum ist das Projekt gescheitert?
    Why did the project fail?
  2. to founder

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “scheitern”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

  • scheitern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • scheitern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • scheitern” in Duden online
  • scheitern” in OpenThesaurus.de
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