schuften

== German == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Middle Low German schoft (“a quarter day's work”), related to Schub (“batch (work that can be performed in one run)”) and schieben (“to shove”). Unrelated to Schuft (“scoundrel”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃʊftn̩/ Hyphenation: schuf‧ten === Verb === schuften (weak, third-person singular present schuftet, past tense schuftete, past participle geschuftet, auxiliary haben) (colloquial) to drudge, toil Synonyms: malochen, ackern, schaffen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Schufterei ==== Related terms ==== Schuften abschuften === References === === Further reading === “schuften”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schuften” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schuften” in Duden online “schuften” in OpenThesaurus.de Kluge, Friedrich (2002), “schuften”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN