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German
Etymology 1
Verb
schnöden (weak, third-person singular present schnödet, past tense schnödete, past participle geschnödet, auxiliary haben)
- (Switzerland) to scoff
- Synonyms: höhnen, spotten
1960, Schaggi Streuli, Familie Heiri Aeppli:Im Restaurant «Bahnhof» sassen wieder einmal der neugebackene Kantonsrat Meyer und der Schneider Tübinger zusammen und schnödeten natürlich über die Seeberger Musik.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2000, Josef Rattner, Nietzsche: Leben, Werk, Wirkung, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 59:Der liebeshungrige Nietzsche schrieb ungemein freundliche Widmungsbriefe an den „Meister“ und die „Meisterin“, die sich jedoch ausschwiegen und im Freundeskreise über das völlig „unmögliche Buch“ schnödeten.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
schnöden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
schnöden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
schnöden
- inflection of schnöde:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Further reading
- “schnöden” in Duden online
- “schnöden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache