Leid tun

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From leid tun, treating leid as a noun Leid n.

Verb[edit]

Leid tun (irregular, third-person singular present tut Leid, past tense tat Leid, past participle Leid getan, past subjunctive täte Leid, auxiliary haben)

  1. Formerly standard spelling of leidtun which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996 as of 2006.

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Further reading[edit]

  • Theodor Ickler: Die sogenannte Rechtschreibreform: Ein Schildbürgerstreich. 1997, p. 103