tunen

tunen c

1. definite singular of tun

Borrowed from English to tune.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnən/, [ˈtjuːnən], [ˈtjuːnn̩], [tç-]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

tunen (weak, third-person singular present tunt or (proscribed) tunet, past tense tunte or (proscribed) tunete, past participle getunt or getuned or (proscribed) getunet, auxiliary haben)

1. (colloquial, transitive) to tune (modify and optimize technical devices, chiefly cars)
2. (colloquial, transitive or reflexive, humorous) to perform plastic surgery on

• 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 *tunet, sie *tunete 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)

• Tuning

tunen

1. inflection of tunar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative