üben

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈyːbən/
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  • Hyphenation: üben

Etymology 1

From Middle High German üeben, uoben, from Old High German uoben, from Proto-Germanic *ōbijaną (to do, practise).

Verb

üben (weak, third-person singular present übt, past tense übte, past participle geübt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to practise, to drill, to train
    Meine Tochter übt Klavier.
    My daughter is practicing piano.
  2. (transitive) to exercise, to put into practice
    Wenn wir fortfahren, müssen wir Vorsicht üben.
    If we proceed, we must exercise caution.
  3. (reflexive) to practise
    Du solltest dich in Rechtschreibung üben.
    You should practice spelling.
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Further reading

  • üben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • üben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • üben” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883) “üben”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Etymology 2

Formed from über (across) by analogy to pairs like unter - unten, ober - oben. [1]

Adverb

üben

  1. (rare, dialectal, Upper German, obsolete) over there, across, beyond, on the other side
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