schiften

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsxɪftə(n)/
  • (file)

Verb

schiften

  1. (intransitive) to separate, to divide itself into separate layers or substances
    Deze saus gaat schiften als je niet blijft roeren.
    This sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.

Inflection

Conjugation of schiften (weak)
infinitive schiften
past singular schiftte
past participle geschift
infinitive schiften
gerund schiften n
present tense past tense
1st person singular schiftschiftte
2nd person sing. (jij) schiftschiftte
2nd person sing. (u) schiftschiftte
2nd person sing. (gij) schiftschiftte
3rd person singular schiftschiftte
plural schiftenschiftten
subjunctive sing.1 schifteschiftte
subjunctive plur.1 schiftenschiftten
imperative sing. schift
imperative plur.1 schift
participles schiftendgeschift
1) Archaic.

See also

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɪftn̩/
  • (file)

Verb

schiften (weak, third-person singular present schiftet, past tense schiftete, past participle geschiftet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (nautical) to jibe, gybe (shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Schiftung

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English sċiftan, from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną; equivalent to schyft + -en (infinitival suffix). Doublet of skift.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃiftən/

Verb

schiften

  1. To split, cut up, sunder.
  2. To share out, redistribute, split equally.
  3. To break apart, ruin, smash, make dissolute.
  4. To choose, pick, select.
  5. To ready, prepare, rectify, sort.
  6. To leave; to change place.
  7. (rare) To shift, modify, alter.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: shift
  • Scots: shift, schift

References

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