schoven
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -oːvən
Verb
schoven
- inflection of schuiven:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃuvən/, /ˈʃuːvən/, /ˈʃeːvən/
Verb
schoven
- To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
- To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
- To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
- To shove and throw into something.
- To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
- To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
- To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
- (rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
- (rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
- (rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
- (rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
- (rare) To secure or reinforce.
Usage notes
This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.
Conjugation
Conjugation of schoven (strong class 2 or weak in -ed)
infinitive | (to) schoven, schove | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | schove | schef, schof, schoved | |
2nd-person singular | schovest | schove, schef, schof, schovedest | |
3rd-person singular | schoveth | schef, schof, schoved | |
subjunctive singular | schove | schove1, schoved1 | |
imperative singular | — | ||
plural2 | schoven, schove | schoven, schove, schoveden, schovede | |
imperative plural | schoveth, schove | — | |
participles | schovynge, schovende | schoven, schove, schoved, yschoven, yschove, yschoved |
1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “shǒuven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-22.
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