üben
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈyːbən/
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) Audio (Austria): (file) Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: üben
- Rhymes: -yːbən
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German üeben, uoben, from Old High German uoben, from Proto-Germanic *ōbijaną (“to do, practice”).
Verb
[edit]üben (weak, third-person singular present übt, past tense übte, past participle geübt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to practice, to drill, to train
- Meine Tochter übt Klavier.
- My daughter is practicing piano.
- Du musst mehr üben, sonst wirst du nie besser.
- You've got to practice more, otherwise you'll never get better.
- (transitive) to exercise, to perform; used to form verbal phrases with certain behavior-describing nouns
- Wenn wir fortfahren, müssen wir Vorsicht üben. ― If we proceed, we must exercise caution.
- Kritik üben ― to criticize, to express criticism
- Rache üben ― to exact revenge, to take vangeance
- (reflexive) to practice [with in (+ dative) ‘(doing) an action’]
- Du solltest dich in Rechtschreibung üben. ― You should practice spelling.
- to practice (a virtue, trying to behave in a certain way)
- Sie übte sich in Bescheidenheit. ― She was being modest.
- sich in Geduld üben ― to (try to) be patient
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | üben | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | übend | ||||
| past participle | geübt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich übe | wir üben | i | ich übe | wir üben |
| du übst | ihr übt | du übest | ihr übet | ||
| er übt | sie üben | er übe | sie üben | ||
| preterite | ich übte | wir übten | ii | ich übte1 | wir übten1 |
| du übtest | ihr übtet | du übtest1 | ihr übtet1 | ||
| er übte | sie übten | er übte1 | sie übten1 | ||
| imperative | üb (du) übe (du) |
übt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “üben”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “üben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “üben” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “üben”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Etymology 2
[edit]Formed from über (“across”) by analogy to pairs like unter - unten, ober - oben. [1]
Adverb
[edit]üben
- (rare, dialectal, Upper German, obsolete) over there, across, beyond, on the other side
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