tasten
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See also: Tasten
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]tasten
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch tasten, from Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin taxitō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tasten
- (intransitive) to feel with the hands, to grope
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of tasten (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tasten | |||
| past singular | tastte | |||
| past participle | getast | |||
| infinitive | tasten | |||
| gerund | tasten n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | tast | tastte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | tast | tastte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | tast | tastte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | tast | tastte | ||
| 3rd person singular | tast | tastte | ||
| plural | tasten | tastten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | taste | tastte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | tasten | tastten | ||
| imperative sing. | tast | |||
| imperative plur.1 | tast | |||
| participles | tastend | getast | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
Derived terms
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[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From northern Middle High German and Middle Low German tasten, from Middle Dutch tasten, from Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin *tastare, from *taxitare, from Latin taxare. Cognate with Dutch tasten, French tâter, English taste.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tasten (weak, third-person singular present tastet, past tense tastete, past participle getastet, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | tasten | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | tastend | ||||
| past participle | getastet | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich taste | wir tasten | i | ich taste | wir tasten |
| du tastest | ihr tastet | du tastest | ihr tastet | ||
| er tastet | sie tasten | er taste | sie tasten | ||
| preterite | ich tastete | wir tasteten | ii | ich tastete1 | wir tasteten1 |
| du tastetest | ihr tastetet | du tastetest1 | ihr tastetet1 | ||
| er tastete | sie tasteten | er tastete1 | sie tasteten1 | ||
| imperative | tast (du) taste (du) |
tastet (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tasten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “tasten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “tasten” in Duden online
- “tasten” in OpenThesaurus.de
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French taster, from Vulgar Latin tastō, from Latin taxō.
Verb
[edit]tasten
- To taste
- c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 4.2546-7:
- Wherof a man mai hiere and se
And smelle and taste in his degre- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (with of) To partake in or ingest
- 1987, Rolf Hendrik Bremmer, The Fyve Wyttes: A late Middle English Devotional Treatise Edited form BL MS Harley 2398, pg 27, l 7-8:
- whenne Adam tastede of pe appui he wiste neuer whefrer it was sowr or swete, ne for pe swetnesse fcerof was he nou3t repreued, bot for forfete азепз Godes [lawe].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- To examine by touch; grope; palpate
- c. 15th c,, The Romance of Merlin, folio la, ch XXXIII, pg 681.
- Merlin leide his heed in the damesels lappe, and she be-gan to taste softly till he fill on slepe
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 15th c,, The Romance of Merlin, folio la, ch XXXIII, pg 681.
- To experience, feel (with sexual connotation)
- c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 5.6692-5:
- Mi fader, nay; bot I have tasted
In many a place as I have go,
And yit love I nevere on of tho,
Bot forto drive forth the dai.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- To try, test, tempt
Descendants
[edit]- English: taste
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]tasten m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]tasten m
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