kapieren

== German == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin capere (“to seize, catch; to understand”), possibly with influence from Italian capire (“to understand”). First used in 17th-century grammar-school slang. Doublet of heben and hieven; cognate with English capture. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈpiːʁən/, [-ˈpiː.ɐn] === Verb === kapieren (weak, third-person singular present kapiert, past tense kapierte, past participle kapiert, auxiliary haben) (informal) to understand intellectually; to get; to grasp Synonyms: verstehen, (formal) begreifen; see also Thesaurus:begreifen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== Kapee ==== Descendants ==== → Polish: kapować → Serbo-Croatian: kapírati / капи́рати → Macedonian: капира (kapira) === Further reading === “kapieren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “kapieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “kapieren” in Duden online “kapieren” in OpenThesaurus.de