sjacheren
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German schachern (“to haggle”), from Yiddish סחרן (sakhern, “to trade”), from Hebrew סַחַר (sakhár, “commerce”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɑ.xə.rə(n)/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: sja‧che‧ren
Verb
sjacheren
- (originally Bargoens) to sell a pup, to swindle with substandard wares, to scam
- 2012, Arthur van Amerongen, Mambo Jambo. Een krankzinnige liefde in Zuid-Amerika, Nijgh & Van Ditmar:
- Het centrum van Paraguay is overstroomd door indígenas die allemaal met dezelfde meuk sjacheren.
- The city centre of Paraguay is swamped by indígenas who all try to sell a pup with the same shit.
- (originally Bargoens) to wrangle, haggle
- Synonym: afdingen
- 2015, Elle Eggels, De achtste zuster, The House of Books:
- Ik leerde sjacheren over de prijs.
- I learnt how to wrangle over prices.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of sjacheren (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | sjacheren | |||
| past singular | sjacherde | |||
| past participle | gesjacherd | |||
| infinitive | sjacheren | |||
| gerund | sjacheren n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | sjacher | sjacherde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | sjachert, sjacher2 | sjacherde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | sjachert | sjacherde | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | sjachert | sjacherde | ||
| 3rd person singular | sjachert | sjacherde | ||
| plural | sjacheren | sjacherden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | sjachere | sjacherde | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | sjacheren | sjacherden | ||
| imperative sing. | sjacher | |||
| imperative plur.1 | sjachert | |||
| participles | sjacherend | gesjacherd | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||
Derived terms
References
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “sjacheren”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute