schaden

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See also: Schaden and Schäden

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schaden, from Old Dutch skathon, from Proto-West Germanic *skaþōn, from Proto-Germanic *skaþōną. Cognate with English scathe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsxaːdə(n)/
  • Rhymes: -aːdən
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Verb

schaden

  1. (intransitive) to damage, to harm, to hurt
    Synonym: beschadigen

Inflection

Inflection of schaden (weak)
infinitive schaden
past singular schaadde
past participle geschaad
infinitive schaden
gerund schaden n
present tense past tense
1st person singular schaad schaadde
2nd person sing. (jij) schaadt schaadde
2nd person sing. (u) schaadt schaadde
2nd person sing. (gij) schaadt schaadde
3rd person singular schaadt schaadde
plural schaden schaadden
subjunctive sing.1 schade schaadde
subjunctive plur.1 schaden schaadden
imperative sing. schaad
imperative plur.1 schaadt
participles schadend geschaad
1) Archaic.

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: skaad

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Middle High German schaden, from Old High German scadōn, from the root of the noun Schaden (damage, harm).

Pronunciation

Verb

schaden (weak, third-person singular present schadet, past tense schadete, past participle geschadet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to hurt, to be harmful
    Es kann nicht schaden, es mal zu versuchen.
    It can't hurt to give it a try.
  2. (with dative object) to damage, to harm, to hurt
    Der Fehler hat seinem Ruf geschadet.
    The mistake harmed his reputation.

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

  • schaden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • schaden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • schaden” in Duden online
  • schaden” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle English

Verb

schaden

  1. Alternative form of scheden