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German
Etymology
From Feuer. The sense “terminate employment” is a semantic loan from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔʏ̯ɐn/
- Hyphenation: feu‧ern
Verb
feuern (weak, third-person singular present feuert, past tense feuerte, past participle gefeuert, auxiliary haben)
- (weaponry) to fire
- (transitive) to fire (terminate employment)
- Synonyms: entlassen, rausschmeißen, schassen
- Es tut mir leid, aber Sie sind gefeuert. ― I'm sorry, but you're fired.
2021 December 8, Cathrin Gilbert, “Herr Reichelt, können Sie ohne "Bild" leben?”, in Die Zeit:Am 18. Oktober hat Mathias Döpfner, Chef des Springer-Verlags, ihn gefeuert. Denn Reichelt steht im Zentrum des größten MeToo-Skandals der deutschen Presse, es geht um Affären, Sexismus und mutmaßlichen Machtmissbrauch.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to fire (feed a fire)
- (intransitive) to fire (of neurons)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
feuern (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
feuern (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “feuern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “feuern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “feuern” in Duden online
- “feuern” in OpenThesaurus.de