schimmern
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Low German, from Middle Low German schēmeren or Middle Dutch schemmern, intensive form of schemen (“to flash, blink”), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]schimmern (weak, third-person singular present schimmert, past tense schimmerte, past participle geschimmert, auxiliary haben)
- to glimmer, to shimmer
- 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 76:
- Auf der breiten Waldstraße, im kühlen Herbstschatten der Tannen, durch die ein mattblauer Himmel schimmerte, begegneten sich die Freunde.
- On the broad forest road, in the cool autumn shadow of the fir trees, through which a pale blue sky was shimmering, the two friends met.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | schimmern | ||||
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present participle | schimmernd | ||||
past participle | geschimmert | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich schimmre ich schimmere ich schimmer |
wir schimmern | i | ich schimmere ich schimmre |
wir schimmern |
du schimmerst | ihr schimmert | du schimmerest du schimmrest |
ihr schimmeret ihr schimmret | ||
er schimmert | sie schimmern | er schimmere er schimmre |
sie schimmern | ||
preterite | ich schimmerte | wir schimmerten | ii | ich schimmerte1 | wir schimmerten1 |
du schimmertest | ihr schimmertet | du schimmertest1 | ihr schimmertet1 | ||
er schimmerte | sie schimmerten | er schimmerte1 | sie schimmerten1 | ||
imperative | schimmre (du) schimmer (du) schimmere (du) |
schimmert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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