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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German schīnen, from Old High German skīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan.
Cognate with German Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, English shine, Danish skinne, Esperanto ŝajni.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]scheinen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present scheint, past tense schien, past participle geschienen or (obsolete or dialectal) gescheint, auxiliary haben)
- to shine; to gleam
- 2001, “Sonne”, performed by Rammstein:
- Alle warten auf das Licht
Fürchtet euch, fürchtet euch nicht
Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen
Sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen
Und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn- All await the light
Be afraid, don't be afraid
The sun is shining out of my eyes
It won't set tonight
And the world counts aloud to ten
- All await the light
- 2002, Peter Bichsel, Eisenbahnfahren, Insel Verlag, published 2015, page 12:
- Wenn man aus der Kirche kommt, schneit es, oder es regnet, oder die Sonne scheint.
- When you come out of the church, it's snowing, or it's raining, or the sun's shining.
- (copulative) to seem; to appear; to look
- Es scheint mir, dass …
- It seems to me that …
- Du scheinst erschöpft.
- You seem exhausted.
- 1813, Der Landfreund: Ein Sonntagsblatt für den ehrenfesten Bauernstand[1], Mösle, page 143:
- Vom Erdboden bis zur Hälfte ihrer Höhe war sie dunkelgelb; der obere Theil hingegen, hat gescheint entzunden zu seyn.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | scheinen | ||||
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present participle | scheinend | ||||
past participle | geschienen gescheint1 | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich scheine | wir scheinen | i | ich scheine | wir scheinen |
du scheinst | ihr scheint | du scheinest | ihr scheinet | ||
er scheint | sie scheinen | er scheine | sie scheinen | ||
preterite | ich schien | wir schienen | ii | ich schiene2 | wir schienen2 |
du schienst | ihr schient | du schienest2 du schienst2 |
ihr schienet2 ihr schient2 | ||
er schien | sie schienen | er schiene2 | sie schienen2 | ||
imperative | schein (du) scheine (du) |
scheint (ihr) |
1Obsolete or dialectal.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
1Obsolete or dialectal.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “scheinen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “scheinen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “scheinen” in Duden online
- “scheinen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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