stopfen

See also: Stopfen

German

Alternative forms

  • stoppen (in this sense only colloquial; northern and central Germany)

Etymology

Middle High German stopfen, from Old High German stopfōn (to close), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɔpfən/, [ˈʃtɔpfn̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpfm̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpɸm̩]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stop‧fen

Verb

stopfen (weak, third-person singular present stopft, past tense stopfte, past participle gestopft, auxiliary haben)

  1. to stuff, to plug
  2. to darn (mend by sewing over)
    Socken stopfento darn socks

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • stopfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • stopfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • stopfen” in Duden online
  • stopfen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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