sprießen
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German spriozan, from Proto-West Germanic *spreutan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną. Cognate with English sprout.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sprießen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present sprießt, past tense spross, past participle gesprossen, past subjunctive sprösse, auxiliary sein)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | sprießen | ||||
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present participle | sprießend | ||||
past participle | gesprossen | ||||
auxiliary | sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich sprieße | wir sprießen | i | ich sprieße | wir sprießen |
du sprießt | ihr sprießt | du sprießest | ihr sprießet | ||
er sprießt | sie sprießen | er sprieße | sie sprießen | ||
preterite | ich spross | wir sprossen | ii | ich sprösse1 | wir sprössen1 |
du sprossest du sprosst |
ihr sprosst | du sprössest1 du sprösst1 |
ihr sprösset1 ihr sprösst1 | ||
er spross | sie sprossen | er sprösse1 | sie sprössen1 | ||
imperative | sprieß (du) sprieße (du) |
sprießt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sprießen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “sprießen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “sprießen” in Duden online
- “sprießen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “sprießen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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