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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German gaffen (“to gape; to stare”), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”);[1] influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Doublet of jappen (which is from Low German), and cognate with Dutch gapen, English gape.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gaffen (weak, third-person singular present gafft, past tense gaffte, past participle gegafft, auxiliary haben)
- to stare at curiously, rubberneck
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | gaffen | ||||
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present participle | gaffend | ||||
past participle | gegafft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich gaffe | wir gaffen | i | ich gaffe | wir gaffen |
du gaffst | ihr gafft | du gaffest | ihr gaffet | ||
er gafft | sie gaffen | er gaffe | sie gaffen | ||
preterite | ich gaffte | wir gafften | ii | ich gaffte1 | wir gafften1 |
du gafftest | ihr gafftet | du gafftest1 | ihr gafftet1 | ||
er gaffte | sie gafften | er gaffte1 | sie gafften1 | ||
imperative | gaff (du) gaffe (du) |
gafft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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