schlagen
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
The more original form is schlah(e)n, from Middle High German slahen, from Old High German slahan, from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. The modern -g- in the infinitive and present is inserted by analogy with the past forms and the related noun Schlag (see Grammatischer Wechsel).
Cognate with Low German and Dutch slaan and Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite”) (Modern English slay, slog) as well as Danish, Swedish and Norwegian slå.
Pronunciation
Verb
schlagen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present schlägt, past tense schlug, past participle geschlagen, past subjunctive schlüge, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to beat; to hit; to knock; to strike; to punch; to hammer; to pound
- (transitive, figuratively) to beat; to win against; to defeat
- (intransitive) to beat; to strike repeatedly; to pound
- (transitive, cooking) to beat; to whip; to mix food in a rapid aerating fashion
- (of a clock) to chime
- 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 41:
- Die kleine Stutzuhr auf dem Kamin, ein letzter Rest der Habe meiner Eltern, schlug zehn.
- The small bracket clock on the chimney, a last remnant of the belongings of my parents, chimed ten.
- (reflexive) to fight
Conjugation
infinitive | schlagen | ||||
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present participle | schlagend | ||||
past participle | geschlagen | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich schlage | wir schlagen | i | ich schlage | wir schlagen |
du schlägst | ihr schlagt | du schlagest | ihr schlaget | ||
er schlägt | sie schlagen | er schlage | sie schlagen | ||
preterite | ich schlug | wir schlugen | ii | ich schlüge1 | wir schlügen1 |
du schlugst | ihr schlugt | du schlügest1 du schlügst1 |
ihr schlüget1 ihr schlügt1 | ||
er schlug | sie schlugen | er schlüge1 | sie schlügen1 | ||
imperative | schlag (du) schlage (du) |
schlagt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- Alarm schlagen
- zu Buche schlagen
- abschlagen
- anschlagen
- aufschlagen
- ausschlagen
- ausschlaggebend
- beschlagen
- durchschlagen
- einschlagen
- entschlagen
- entzweischlagen
- erschlagen
- hinschlagen
- nachschlagen
- niederschlagen
- Schlag
- Schlager
- Schläger
- schlagend
- Schlagetot
- schlagfertig
- Schlagkraft
- Schlagsahne
- Schlagwort
- Schlegel
- Schlägel
- steifschlagen
- totschlagen
- überschlagen
- umschlagen
- unterschlagen
- verschlagen
- vorschlagen
- zerschlagen
- zurückschlagen
- zuschlagen
- zusammenschlagen
- Wurzeln schlagen
Further reading
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