knobeln
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Allied to a widely diffused dialectic form knöbel (Upper German), knöwel (Middle German and Low German), ‘joint,’ especially of the fingers.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: kno‧beln
Verb
[edit]knobeln (weak, third-person singular present knobelt, past tense knobelte, past participle geknobelt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to draw lots
- (intransitive) to dice (play with dice)
- (intransitive) to ponder; to puzzle over
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | knobeln | ||||
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present participle | knobelnd | ||||
past participle | geknobelt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich knoble ich knobele ich knobel |
wir knobeln | i | ich knobele ich knoble |
wir knobeln |
du knobelst | ihr knobelt | du knobelest du knoblest |
ihr knobelet ihr knoblet | ||
er knobelt | sie knobeln | er knobele er knoble |
sie knobeln | ||
preterite | ich knobelte | wir knobelten | ii | ich knobelte1 | wir knobelten1 |
du knobeltest | ihr knobeltet | du knobeltest1 | ihr knobeltet1 | ||
er knobelte | sie knobelten | er knobelte1 | sie knobelten1 | ||
imperative | knoble (du) knobel (du) knobele (du) |
knobelt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (2011) “knobeln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- knobeln on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “knobeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “knobeln” in Duden online
- “knobeln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon