meiden
From Middle High German mīden, from Old High German mīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *mīþan. Cognate with Dutch mijden and Old English mīþan (archaic English mithe).
The expected past forms in modern German would be *mitt, *gemitten (as still in leiden, schneiden), but the Grammatischer Wechsel was levelled out (perhaps to avoid the similarity with unrelated mit, mitten). To meiden was then adapted scheiden, whose original past participle was gescheiden.
meiden (class 1 strong, third-person singular present meidet, past tense mied, past participle gemieden, auxiliary haben)
infinitive | meiden | ||||
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present participle | meidend | ||||
past participle | gemieden | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich meide | wir meiden | i | ich meide | wir meiden |
du meidest | ihr meidet | du meidest | ihr meidet | ||
er meidet | sie meiden | er meide | sie meiden | ||
preterite | ich mied | wir mieden | ii | ich miede1 | wir mieden1 |
du miedest du miedst |
ihr miedet | du miedest1 | ihr miedet1 | ||
er mied | sie mieden | er miede1 | sie mieden1 | ||
imperative | meid (du) meide (du) |
meidet (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
From Middle High German mīden, from Old High German mīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *mīþan. Cognate with German meiden, Dutch mijden, English mithe.
meiden (third-person singular present meit, past participle gemidden, auxiliary verb hunn)
Regular | ||
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infinitive | meiden | |
participle | gemidden | |
auxiliary | hunn | |
present indicative |
imperative | |
1st singular | meiden | — |
2nd singular | meits | meit |
3rd singular | meit | — |
1st plural | meiden | — |
2nd plural | meit | meit |
3rd plural | meiden | — |
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. |
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