schöpfen

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃœpfən/
  • Hyphenation: schöp‧fen

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German schepfen, from Old High German scaphan, skepfen, scephen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną, causative of modern German schaffen, with rounding triggered by the surrounding consonants.

Verb

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schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben)

  1. to create (clarification of this definition is needed)
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Etymology 2

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From Middle High German schepfen, from scheffen, from Old High German scephen, from Proto-Germanic *skuppōną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. Related to Schaff (wooden container, barrel), English scoop.

Verb

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schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to draw, to scoop up [with accusative ‘air, water, sand, etc.’ and aus (+ dative) ‘from something’]
  2. to derive
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Further reading

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