kaufen
German
Alternative forms
- käufen (regional, nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle High German koufen, from Old High German koufōn, from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaʊ̯fn̩], [ˈkaʊ̯fən]
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Verb
kaufen (weak, third-person singular present kauft, past tense kaufte, past participle gekauft, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to buy, to purchase
- Sie kauft ein Auto. ― She is buying a car.
- Ich glaube, wir haben zu viel gekauft. ― I think we bought too much.
- (ditransitive) to buy, to purchase for someone
- Ich kaufe meinem Sohn einen Computer. ― I'm buying my son a computer.
- Ich kaufe mir ein Eis. ― I'm buying (myself) some ice cream.
Conjugation
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “kaufen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “kaufen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “kaufen” in Duden online
- “kaufen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “kaufen”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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