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German
Etymology
English fight + -en. Doublet of fechten
Pronunciation
Verb
fighten (weak, third-person singular present fightet, past tense fightete, past participle gefightet or (proscribed) gefighted, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial, especially sports) to fight ferociously
- Synonym: kämpfen
2020 September 4, “Deutschland und Spanien trennen sich unentschieden”, in Die Zeit:Löw war unmittelbar nach der Partie wegen des späten Gegentors verärgert. "Aber ich muss auch sagen, unsere Jungs haben alles gegeben und gefightet bis zum Schluss", sagte Löw im ZDF.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
fighten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Proscribed.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
fighten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “fighten” in Duden online
- “fighten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English feohtan.
Verb
fighten (third-person singular simple present fighteth, present participle fightende, first-/third-person singular past indicative faught, past participle foughten). Simple past faght and past participle foghten also occur. The present participle ending of Middle English varied with location.
- to fight; to battle; to quarrel
a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.- The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David". / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.
Descendants
Swedish
Noun
fighten
- definite singular of fight