fechten

== German == === Etymology === From Old High German fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-. Cognate to Low German fechten, Dutch vechten, English fight, Danish fægte, Norwegian Bokmål fekte, Norwegian Nynorsk fekta, fekte. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛçtn̩/ Rhymes: -ɛçtn̩ === Verb === fechten (class 3 strong, third-person singular present (standard but rare in the vernacular) ficht or (colloquial) fechtet, past tense focht, past participle gefochten, past subjunctive föchte, auxiliary haben) (intransitive) to fence (intransitive, poetic) to fight (intransitive, cant) to beg Synonym: betteln ==== Usage notes ==== For the 2nd and 3rd person singular there are two sets of forms: regularized (du fechtest, er fechtet) and traditional (du fichtst, er ficht). Only the traditional forms are standard, and they remain favoured in literary German, but are rare in the vernacular and might even be unintelligible to many less educated speakers. Only the traditional forms are used in the sense “to fight”, which is by definition literary. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== anfechten ausfechten Fechten (“fencing”) Gefecht (“battle”) ==== Related terms ==== Fuchtel fuchteln ==== Descendants ==== → Russian: фехтовать (fextovatʹ) === Further reading === “fechten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “fechten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “fechten” in Duden online “fechten” in OpenThesaurus.de == Low German == === Etymology === From Middle Low German vechten, from Old Saxon fehtan, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-. Cognate with English fight, German fechten, Dutch vechten, West Frisian fjuchte, Danish fegte. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛxtn̩/ === Verb === fechten (past singular fecht or focht, past participle fecht or fochten, auxiliary verb hebben) to fight, to combat, to wage battle to fence to struggle to brawl ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== striden