managen

Borrowed from English manage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnɪdʒn̩/, /ˈmɛnɛtʃn̩/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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managen (weak, third-person singular present managt or (proscribed) managet, past tense managte or (proscribed) managete, past participle gemanagt or gemanaged or (proscribed) gemanaget, auxiliary haben)

1. to manage (a team, a band, etc.)
2. (by extension) to handle, to deal with (an ongoing task or responsibility)

   Meine Frau managt den ganzen Papierkram. ― My wife deals with all the paperwork.

• 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 *managet, sie *managete 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 liken → geliked (previously only gelikt)

  2. The verb's past participle is usually not inflected:

     English relax → German relaxen → relaxed (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)

• “managen” in Duden online
• “managen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache