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German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praeoccupō + -ieren.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɛʔɔkʊˈpiːʁən/
- Hyphenation: prä‧ok‧ku‧pie‧ren
Verb
präokkupieren (weak, third-person singular present präokkupiert, past tense präokkupierte, past participle präokkupiert, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, higher register, chiefly passive voice) to preempt, to preoccupy, to occupy already
- Synonyms: vorbelegen, schon benutzen
1970, anonymous author, Jahreshefte des geologischen Landesamtes Baden-Württemberg, page 8:Da jedoch fast alle von Quenstedt (1887) für diese Ammoniten benützten Namen schon präokkupiert waren (vgl. Arkell 1955 bis 1956) und auch die genaue stratigraphische Reichweite der einzelnen Arten unbekannt war, erscheint mir eine ausführliche Neubearbeitung auch dieser beiden Ammoniten-Familien aus dem schwäbischen Bathonium notwendig.- However, since almost all of the names used by Quenstedt (1887) were already taken for these ammonites (cf. Arkell 1955 to 1956) and the exact stratigraphic range of the individual species was unknown, it seems to me that a detailed revision of these two ammonite families from the Swabian bathonium is necessary.
- (transitive, higher register, rare) to preoccupy, distract
- Synonym: beschäftigen
1887, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift, epubli, published 2020, →ISBN, →OCLC:Preise machen, Werte abmessen, Äquivalente ausdenken, tauschen – das hat in einem solchen Maße das allererste Denken des Menschen präokkupiert, daß es in einem gewissen Sinne das Denken ist: […]- Setting prices, measuring values, thinking up equivalents, exchanging – this has preoccupied man’s very first thinking to such an extent that in a certain sense it is thinking
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 491:„Jedenfalls finde ich Sie präokkupiert“, sagte er. „Es sieht nicht aus, als ob ich hier für meine Sorgen Trost, und Balsam für den inneren Zwiespalt finden sollte, der mich quält.“- “Anyway, I think you’re preoccupied,” he said. “It doesn’t look as if I’ll find comfort here for my worries or balm for the inner conflict that torments me.”
Conjugation
Conjugation of
präokkupieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
präokkupieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
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