zeigen
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German zeigen, from Old High German zeigōn, intensive of zīhan, whence modern zeihen (“to blame”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-, whence also Zeichen, English teach. In Modern German, zeigen absorbed the synonymous but entirely unrelated Middle High German zöugen (cognate with Gothic ataugjan); therefore the spellings zäugen, zeugen also occurred.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]zeigen (weak, third-person singular present zeigt, past tense zeigte, past participle gezeigt, auxiliary haben)
- to show, make see
- Synonym: weisen (now restricted in use, in many contexts archaic)
- to point [with auf (+ accusative) ‘at someone/something’]
- Man zeigt nicht mit dem Finger auf die Leute!
- You don’t point your finger at people!
- (transitive) to exhibit, allow to see
- Zeig mir mal deine Briefmarkensammlung!
- Please show me your stamp collection!
- (reflexive, Internet) to face reveal, to show one's face
- Wenn dieser Kanal die 100.000 Abos knackt, zeige ich mich.
- When this channel reaches 100,000 subscribers, I'll do a face reveal.
- (transitive) to display, to manifest
- Die Bäume zeigen schon die ersten grünen Blätter.
- The trees are already displaying the first green leaves.
- to demonstrate, explain by doing
- Synonyms: vormachen, vorführen, demonstrieren
- Kannst du mir mal zeigen, wie das geht?
- Could you show me how this is done?
- to go to show, demonstrate, prove
- Synonyms: belegen, beweisen, demonstrieren
- Das zeigt wieder mal, dass du keine Ahnung hast.
- This only shows again that you don't have a clue.
- (reflexive) to appear, become apparent, come out, turn out, show up, to be manifested
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | zeigen | ||||
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present participle | zeigend | ||||
past participle | gezeigt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich zeige | wir zeigen | i | ich zeige | wir zeigen |
du zeigst | ihr zeigt | du zeigest | ihr zeiget | ||
er zeigt | sie zeigen | er zeige | sie zeigen | ||
preterite | ich zeigte | wir zeigten | ii | ich zeigte1 | wir zeigten1 |
du zeigtest | ihr zeigtet | du zeigtest1 | ihr zeigtet1 | ||
er zeigte | sie zeigten | er zeigte1 | sie zeigten1 | ||
imperative | zeig (du) zeige (du) |
zeigt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
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- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ-
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
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- German terms derived from Old High German
- German 2-syllable words
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- German verbs using haben as auxiliary
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