hüpfen

== German == === Alternative forms === hüppen (colloquial; northern and central Germany) hupfen (colloquial; southern Germany and Austria) === Etymology === From Middle High German hüpfen, hupfen, from Old High German *hupfēn, from Proto-West Germanic *huppijan, from Proto-Germanic *huppijaną. Related with English hop and Dutch hippen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhʏpfən/, [ˈhʏpfən], [-pfɱ̍], [-pɸən], [-pɸm̩] === Verb === hüpfen (weak, third-person singular present hüpft, past tense hüpfte, past participle gehüpft, auxiliary sein) (intransitive) to hop, to skip, to bounce (of a ball) (intransitive, figuratively) to jump (for joy), to bob (on the water), etc. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== hoppeln hopsen === Further reading === “hüpfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “hüpfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “hüpfen” in Duden online “hüpfen” in OpenThesaurus.de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “hüpfen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891