erziehen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German erziehen, from Old High German irziohan, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀteuhan. Equivalent to er- +‎ ziehen.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: er‧zie‧hen

Verb

erziehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present erzieht, past tense erzog, past participle erzogen, past subjunctive erzöge, auxiliary haben)

  1. to nurture
  2. to educate
    • 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
      Das Gefängnis, das heute in Deutschland nicht mehr strafen sondern bessern und erziehen soll, ist damit sozusagen zum Lazarett der bürgerlichen Ordnung avanciert.
      The prison, which today in Germany is not supposed to punish anymore but to better and educate, has thereby advanced to the military hospital of the bourgeois order, so to speak.

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Further reading

  • erziehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • erziehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • erziehen” in Duden online
  • erziehen” in OpenThesaurus.de