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German
Etymology
Geige (“violin”) + -en
Pronunciation
Verb
geigen (weak, third-person singular present geigt, past tense geigte, past participle gegeigt, auxiliary haben)
- (music, transitive or intransitive) to fiddle, to play on the violin
- Synonym: fiedeln
- jemandem die Meinung geigen ― to lecture, to criticize, to give someone a piece of one's mind
2021 June 8, Gerhard Henschel, “Die Wahrheit: Taiwan ist ein La-La-Land”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Stattdessen hat sie nachgelegt und auf Youtube ein Video gepostet, in dem sie Xi Jinping abermals die Meinung geigt […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
geigen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
geigen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “geigen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “geigen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “geigen” in Duden online