stopfen

== German == === Alternative forms === stoppen (in this sense only colloquial; northern and central Germany) === Etymology === Middle High German stopfen, from Old High German stopfōn (“to close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtɔpfən/, [ˈʃtɔpfn̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpfm̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpɸm̩] Hyphenation: stop‧fen === Verb === stopfen (weak, third-person singular present stopft, past tense stopfte, past participle gestopft, auxiliary haben) to stuff, to plug to darn (mend by sewing over) Socken stopfen ― to darn socks ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Stopfen, Stopfer, Stopfung, Stopferei, Stöpfling stopfend, gestopft verstopfen ==== Related terms ==== ausstopfen, feststopfen, zusammenstopfen, zustopfen Stopfkissen, Stopffleisch, Stopfleber === Further reading === “stopfen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “stopfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “stopfen” in Duden online “stopfen” in OpenThesaurus.de