schaffe

From Middle High German schaffen, from Old High German scaffan, scafan, scaphan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną. Compare German schaffen, Dutch scheppen and English shape.

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /ˈʒ̊ɑfə/
• Hyphenation: schaf‧fe

schaffe

1. to manage, to cope with; to (be able to) make, do; to finalize, complete something

   Juhu! Mer händs gschafft! ― Yeah! We made it!

2. to work, labor

   Synonyms: wäärche, bügle

   Wo schaffsch (du)? ― Where do you work?

   Bisch am schaffe? ― Are you working?

   I(ch) gang go (ge, ge, gi, gu) schaffe. ― I am going to work.

   Gang go schaffe! ― Go to work!

   • 2017, Stefanie Grob, ‘Im Coop ar Kasse’, Härzschmärz, page 45:

     Er sig egau, i was für me Coop dass me schaffi, seit d Eliane immer, es gseji ja aui gliich uus.

     It doesn't matter which branch of Coop you work in, Eliane always says, everything always looks the same.

• abschaffe, Abschaffe n
• usschaffe, Usschaffe n

• Schaffe n
• Wäärche n

• Werner Marti (1968) Work - Work: a complex of words in the language of the Bernese Seeland, Volume 13 of Language and Poetry, Language and Poetry, transl., Wäärche - Schaffe: ein Wortfeldkomplex in der Sprache des bernischen Seelandes; Band 13 von Sprache und Dichtung, Sprache und Dichtung (in German), Haupt, →ISSN Invalid ISSN
• (PDF) Zeitschrift "Schweizerdeutsch", Nummer 3/2010 (journal "Swissgerman", number 3/2010), page 13, 16
• “schaffe”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2024

schaffe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of schaffen

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schaffe

1. inflection of schaffen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃafə/

schaffe

1. to work, to labor

   Wo schaffst-du?

   Where do you work?

   Sie schaffd die ganz Nacht.

   She works all night.

   Unser Fatter hod zwanzich Joher dart gechaffd.

   Our father worked for twenty years there.

2. to solve, to fix

   Er hod’s geschaffd.

   He solved it.

   Kannst-du es bis moie frih schaffe?

   Can you fix it by tomorrow morning?

• wechschaffe

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Compare German schaffen, Dutch scheppen, English shape.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃafə/

schaffe

1. to work, to labor

schaffe

1. to make

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)