schaudern

From Middle Dutch schuderen, schuyderen and/or Middle Low German schōderen, variants (with expressive lengthening?) of Middle Dutch schudderen and Middle Low German schodderen, respectively, themselves iteratives of the verb at hand in German schütten (“to pour”, originally “to shake”, compare schütteln). See English shudder for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaʊ̯dɐn/

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schaudern (weak, third-person singular present schaudert, past tense schauderte, past participle geschaudert, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to shudder
2. (intransitive) to shiver, especially momentarily as when stepping out from a warm room into the cold
3. (transitive, impersonal) to make shudder, to make shiver

• The impersonal construction is more common: es schaudert mich (“I’m shuddering”, literally “it shudders me”, “it makes me shudder”).

• erschaudern
• Schauder
• schauderhaft
• schauderlich
• zurückschaudern

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