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German
Etymology
Haspel + -en
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaspl̩n/
- Hyphenation: has‧peln
Verb
haspeln (weak, third-person singular present haspelt, past tense haspelte, past participle gehaspelt, auxiliary haben)
- to reel
1843, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 2, page 236:Auf einem Dorfe lebte ein Mann und eine Frau, und die Frau war so faul, daß sie immer nichts arbeiten wollte, und was ihr der Mann zu spinnen gab, das spann sie nicht fertig, und was sie auch spann, haspelte sie nicht, sondern ließ alles auf dem Klauel gewickelt liegen.- In a village there lived a man and a woman, and the woman was so lazy that she didn't want to work at all: what her husband gave her for spinning, she didn't complete, and whatever she did spin, she wouldn't reel but keep wrapped around the bobbin.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
haspeln (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
haspeln (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “haspeln” in Duden online
- “haspeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache