schürfen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German [Term?]. Cognate to Dutch schorpen (“to rip open; to saw”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃʏʁfn̩/ === Verb === schürfen (weak, third-person singular present schürft, past tense schürfte, past participle geschürft, auxiliary haben) to prospect to dig up to graze (rub or scratch) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Schürfer Schürfwunde === Further reading === “schürfen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schürfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schürfen” in Duden online