From Middle High German rizen, from Old High German rīzan (“to scratch”), from a conflation of two similar verbs:.
Cognate with English rat (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Dutch rijten (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Low German riten (“to rip, tear, rend”), Luxembourgish räissen (“to scratch, tear, rip apart”), Hunsrik reise, Saterland Frisian riete (“to rip, tear”).
Compare also Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), English write (“to inscribe, engrave, imprint”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta (“to cut, scratch, write”).
reißen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reißt, past tense riss, past participle gerissen, auxiliary haben or sein)
infinitive | reißen | ||||
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present participle | reißend | ||||
past participle | gerissen | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich reiße | wir reißen | i | ich reiße | wir reißen |
du reißt | ihr reißt | du reißest | ihr reißet | ||
er reißt | sie reißen | er reiße | sie reißen | ||
preterite | ich riss | wir rissen | ii | ich risse1 | wir rissen1 |
du rissest du risst |
ihr risst | du rissest1 du risst1 |
ihr risset1 ihr risst1 | ||
er riss | sie rissen | er risse1 | sie rissen1 | ||
imperative | reiß (du) reiße (du) |
reißt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.