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German
Etymology
Keil + -en
Pronunciation
Verb
keilen (weak, third-person singular present keilt, past tense keilte, past participle gekeilt, auxiliary haben)
- (obsolete) to hit or insert with a wedge or as if by one
- to split with a wedge
- Synonym: spalten
- (colloquial, takes a reflexive pronoun) to brawl
- Synonym: prügeln
- (colloquial, transitive, dated) to recruit
1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 29:Er war sofort von einem Kollegen für eine Verbindung gekeilt worden. Auch Diederich sollte ihr beitreten; es waren die Neuteutonen, eine hochfeine Korporation, sagte Hornung; allein sechs Pharmazeuten waren dabei.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
keilen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
keilen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
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