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单词 brauchen
释义

brauchen

See also: Bräuchen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German brūchen, from Old High German brūhhan, from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan (use, employ, consume). Cognate to English brook and Dutch bruiken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbraʊ̯x(ə)n/
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  • Hyphenation: brau‧chen

Verb

brauchen (weak, third-person singular present braucht, past tense brauchte, past participle gebraucht, past subjunctive (prescribed) brauchte or (always used in speech, common in writing) bräuchte, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to need, to be in need of, to require
    Ich brauche deine Hilfe.I need your help.
    Ich brauche nie lang.It never takes me long. (literally, “I never need long.”)
    Dafür brauchen wir dringend eine politische Lösung.For this, we urgently need a political solution.
  2. to need to, to have to (in negation or with the adverb nur (just, only))
    Du brauchst nicht auf mich (zu) warten.You don’t need to wait for me.
    Sie braucht mich nur an(zu)rufen.She just needs to call me.

Usage notes

  • Traditionally, brauchen has been a weak verb in standard German with a regular past subjunctive brauchte. However, the irregular form bräuchte has since found its way from the dialects into the standard. It is already the only common form in spoken German,[1] and is gradually becoming dominant in writing as well (although some grammars may still discourage this usage).
  • In colloquial German, the verb may be even further assimilated to modal verbs by taking a bare infinitive instead of a zu infinitive (du brauchst nicht schreien instead of standard du brauchst nicht zu schreien) and sometimes by taking an endingless third-person singular present (er brauch, instead of er braucht). Both of these are properties of modal verbs, cf. er soll gehen, er muss bleiben.
  • In archaic usage, in the sense of "to be in need of" or "to require", brauchen could take a genitive object instead of an accusative one.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • gebrauchen
  • verbrauchen
  • Brauch
  • brauchbar

References

  1. http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/r8-f4m-2/

Further reading

  • brauchen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • brauchen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • brauchen” in Duden online
  • brauchen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • brauchen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German brūchen, from Old High German brūhhan, from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan.

Cognate with German brauchen, Dutch bruiken, English brook, West Frisian brûke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʀæu̯χen/, [ˈbʀæˑʊ̯χən]

Verb

brauchen (third-person singular present braucht, past participle gebraucht, past subjunctive bräicht or bréicht, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to need

Conjugation

Irregular with past tense
infinitivebrauchen
participlegebrauch
auxiliaryhunn
present
indicative
past
indicative
conditionalimperative
1st singularbrauchenbräichtbréicht
2nd singularbrauchsbräichtsbréichtsbrauch
3rd singularbrauchtbräichtbréicht
1st pluralbrauchenbräichtenbréichten
2nd pluralbrauchtbräichtbréichtbraucht
3rd pluralbrauchenbräichtenbréichten
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.
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