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German
Etymology
Middle High German hovieren, from Hof + -ieren.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ho‧fie‧ren
Verb
hofieren (weak, third-person singular present hofiert, past tense hofierte, past participle hofiert, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, often figurative) to court, to pay court to
- Synonym: den Hof machen
2017 January 26, Alard von Kittlitz, “Fuck you, Silicon Valley!”, in Zeit:Unterdessen hofierten die Republikaner in Amerika gleich den Großinvestor Peter Thiel.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2017 December 4, Christian Bangel, Martin Machowecz, quoting Lars-Detlef Kluger, “Es haben nicht nur Verlierer AfD gewählt!”, in Die Zeit:In den vergangenen Jahren wurden konservative Positionen ausgegrenzt und linke Positionen hofiert.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2018 January 3, Jana Simon, Annabel Wahba, “Im Zwielicht”, in Zeit Magazin:Viele Schauspielerinnen, vor allem die erfahreneren und bereits erfolgreichen, hat er hofiert oder—abgesehen von seinen Wutausbrüchen, die auch Männer trafen—korrekt behandelt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
hofieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
hofieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “hofieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “hofieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “hofieren” in Duden online