hypen

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English hype.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ̯pn̩/
  • Hyphenation: hy‧pen
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Verb

hypen (weak, third-person singular present hypt or (proscribed) hypet, past tense hypte or (proscribed) hypete, past participle gehypt or gehyped or (proscribed) gehypet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to hype

Usage notes

  • As with other verbs of English origin where ⟨a⟩, ⟨i⟩ correspond to [ɛɪ̯], [aɪ̯], the conjugated forms commonly (but unofficially) retain the -e- (as in er *hypet, sie *hypete etc.).
  • German verbs borrowed from English can optionally form the past participle (Partizip II) in -ed in two cases[1]
    1. The English verb ends in a silent ⟨e⟩:
      English like → German likengeliked (previously only gelikt)
    2. The verb's past participle is usually not inflected:
      English relax → German relaxenrelaxed (previously only relaxt)
  • But -ed- is not permitted when the participle is inflected, thus:
    meine gelikten Bilder (not meine *gelikeden Bilder)
    ein relaxter Abend (not ein *relaxeder Abend)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ “1.8 Spezielle Laut-Buchstaben-Zuordnungen in Fremdwörtern”, in Amtliches Regelwerk des Rats für deutsche Rechtschreibung (in German), 2024, § 21 E2

Further reading

  • hypen” in Duden online
  • hypen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

Noun

hypen

  1. definite singular of hype