parsen

See also: Parsen

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English parse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈparzn̩/, /ˈpaːɐ̯sn̩/
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  • Hyphenation: par‧sen

Verb

parsen (weak or irregular weak, third-person singular present parst, past tense parste, past participle geparst or geparsed, auxiliary haben)

  1. to parse

Usage notes

  • 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

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