reiten

• reuten (obsolete)

From Middle High German rīten, from Old High German rītan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną. A Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- preform does not exist, only northwest-European forms.

Cognate with Dutch rijden, Low German rieden, English ride, Danish ride, Swedish rida.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯tən/

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reiten (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reitet, past tense ritt, past participle geritten, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive) to ride; to do horseriding [auxiliary sein]
2. (transitive) to ride (someone or something), to ride on the back of [auxiliary haben]
   • 1997, Rammstein, Sehnsucht:

     Lass mich deine Träne reiten übers Kinn nach Afrika

     Let me ride your tear over your chin to Africa

• In intransitive use, the normal auxiliary is sein. When referring to horseriding as a sport, haben is possible alternatively: “Ich habe früher geritten.”
• For transitive use, prescriptive grammar requires haben: “Er hat das Pferd geritten”; but “Er ist das Pferd geritten” is also common in practice.

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• In dialectal or archaic usage the third-person singular of the present may be reit (also spelt reit't).

• Reiten
• Reiter
• Ritt
• Ritter

• “reiten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “reiten” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “reiten” in Duden online
• “reiten” in OpenThesaurus.de

reiten

1. definite singular of reit

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛɪːtən/, /ˈrɛɪːtn̩/

reiten m

1. definite singular of reit

• IPA^(key): /²rɛɪːtən/, /²rɛɪːtn̩/

reiten (neuter reite, definite singular and plural reitne)

1. quarrelsome, mocking
   • 1951, Halldor O. Opedal, Makter og menneske: folkeminne ifrå Hardanger, volume 7, Oslo: Norsk folkeminnelag, page 175:

     På marknaden fór der nokre reitne tatrar og jaola seg

     At the marketplace, some gipsys went about and wreaking havoc

• “reiten”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016