quetschen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German quetzen, possibly influenced or from Old French quasser (“to break”). Cognate with Middle Low German quattern, Dutch kwetsen.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkvɛtʃən/, [ˈkʰvɛtʃn̩]
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Verb

quetschen (weak, third-person singular present quetscht, past tense quetschte, past participle gequetscht, auxiliary haben)

  1. to squeeze, to squish

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “quetschen”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading
  • “quetschen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “quetschen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “quetschen” in Duden online
  • “quetschen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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