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Verb
feixen
- third-person plural present indicative of feixar
German
Etymology
From Feix (“young student”) + -en, maybe an altered form of Feist, dialect form of Fist (“soft fart”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: fei‧xen
Verb
feixen (weak, third-person singular present feixt, past tense feixte, past participle gefeixt, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to smirk, to grin or laugh in a gleeful or gloating manner
- Synonym: grinsen
2023 January 18, Marina Kormbaki, Christoph Schult, Christian Teevs, “Jetzt hat Olaf Scholz ein Frauenproblem”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:Mit der Benennung von Boris Pistorius bricht Olaf Scholz sein Versprechen, so viele Frauen wie Männer im Kabinett zu haben. Die Grünen schimpfen, manch Liberaler feixt – und was sagen die Genossinnen?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
feixen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
feixen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
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