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Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
schoven
- plural of schoof
Verb
schoven
- inflection of schuiven:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
Middle English
- shoven, schouven, scheven, scheve, schovyn, showve, scheove, schwve, schowve, schouve, schove
- scuven (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃuvən/, /ˈʃuːvən/, /ˈʃeːvən/
Verb
schoven
- To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
- To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
- To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
- To shove and throw into something.
- To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
- To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
- To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
- (rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
- (rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
- (rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
- (rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
- (rare) To secure or reinforce.
Usage notes
This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.
Conjugation
infinitive
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(to) schoven, schove
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present tense
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past tense
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1st-person singular
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schove
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schef, schof, schoved
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2nd-person singular
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schovest
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schove, schef, schof, schovedest
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3rd-person singular
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schoveth
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schef, schof, schoved
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subjunctive singular
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schove
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schove1, schoved1
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imperative singular
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—
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plural2
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schoven, schove
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schoven, schove, schoveden, schovede
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imperative plural
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schoveth, schove
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—
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participles
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schovynge, schovende
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schoven, schove, schoved, yschoven, yschove, yschoved
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1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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