scheinen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German schīnen, from Old High German skīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan.

Cognate with German Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, English shine, Danish skinne, Esperanto ŝajni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaɪnən/
  • Hyphenation: schei‧nen
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Verb

scheinen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present scheint, past tense schien, past participle geschienen or (obsolete or dialectal) gescheint, auxiliary haben)

  1. to shine; to gleam
    • 2001, “Sonne”, performed by Rammstein:
      Alle warten auf das Licht
      Fürchtet euch, fürchtet euch nicht
      Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen
      Sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen
      Und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn
      All await the light
      Be afraid, don't be afraid
      The sun is shining out of my eyes
      It won't set tonight
      And the world counts aloud to ten
    • 2002, Peter Bichsel, Eisenbahnfahren, Insel Verlag, published 2015, page 12:
      Wenn man aus der Kirche kommt, schneit es, oder es regnet, oder die Sonne scheint.
      When you come out of the church, it's snowing, or it's raining, or the sun's shining.
  2. (copulative) to seem; to appear; to look
    Es scheint mir, dass …
    It seems to me that …
    Du scheinst erschöpft.
    You seem exhausted.
    • 1813, Der Landfreund: Ein Sonntagsblatt für den ehrenfesten Bauernstand, Mösle, page 143:
      Vom Erdboden bis zur Hälfte ihrer Höhe war sie dunkelgelb; der obere Theil hingegen, hat gescheint entzunden zu seyn.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Further reading

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

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