beschaffen

== German == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -afn̩ === Etymology 1 === 15th century, from be- +‎ schaffen. Formally from Old High German biskaffōn (“to create, form”) since it also had a weak declension. Middle High German beschaffen is formally related, but had a strong declension. The base lemma schaffen had both a strong and a weak paradigm (which are both continued in modern schaffen). ==== Verb ==== beschaffen (weak, third-person singular present beschafft, past tense beschaffte, past participle beschafft, auxiliary haben) (ditransitive) to purchase, to procure, to obtain, to acquire ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== Beschaffen Beschaffung === Etymology 2 === From Middle High German beschaffen. Possibly a continuation of an unattested Old High German *biskaffan. Obsolete since Early New High German, but the past participle is continued as adjective. ==== Verb ==== beschaffen (weak, third-person singular present beschafft, past tense beschaffte, past participle beschafft, auxiliary haben) (obsolete, chiefly religious) to create Synonyms: erschaffen, schaffen ==== Adjective ==== beschaffen (strong nominative masculine singular beschaffener, not comparable) made, structured, like (of the properties of something) Die Maschine ist aus Leichtmetall beschaffen. ― The machine is made of light metal. Wie ist der Untergrund beschaffen? ― What is the substrate like? ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== Beschaffenheit === Further reading === “beschaffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “beschaffen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “beschaffen” in Duden online “beschaffen” in OpenThesaurus.de