managen

== German == === Etymology === Borrowed from English manage. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛnɪdʒn̩/, /ˈmɛnɛtʃn̩/ === Verb === managen (weak, third-person singular present managt or (proscribed) managet, past tense managte or (proscribed) managete, past participle gemanagt or gemanaged or (proscribed) gemanaget, auxiliary haben) to manage (a team, a band, etc.) (by extension) to handle, to deal with (an ongoing task or responsibility) Meine Frau managt den ganzen Papierkram. ― My wife deals with all the paperwork. ==== Usage notes ==== 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 *managet, sie *managete etc.). German verbs borrowed from English can optionally form the past participle (Partizip II) in -ed in two cases The English verb ends in a silent ⟨e⟩: English like → German liken → geliked (previously only gelikt) 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) ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === “managen” in Duden online “managen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)