recyclen

Borrowed from English recycle.

• IPA^(key): /riˈsaːi.k(ə.)lə(n)/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧cy‧clen

recyclen

1. to recycle

   Synonyms: recycleren, hergebruiken

Borrowed from English recycle.

• Homophone: recyceln

recyclen (weak, third-person singular present recyclet, past tense recyclete, past participle recyclet or recycled, auxiliary haben)

1. alternative form of recyceln

• The pronunciation follows recyceln.
• The spelling recyclen has been an optional spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform) as of 2006.
• 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)