verschlagen

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈʃlaːɡn̩/ === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German verslahen, from Old High German firslahan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraslahan. By surface analysis, ver- +‎ schlagen. Cognate with Old English forslēan and Dutch verslaan. ==== Verb ==== verschlagen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present verschlägt, past tense verschlug, past participle verschlagen, past subjunctive verschlüge, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to drive, to strand; to shlep; to bring (causing difficulty, often to somewhere someone didn't want to go) (idiomatic, in collocations) to suddenly take away [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘from someone’] jemandem die Sprache verschlagen ― to leave someone speechless jemandem den Atem verschlagen ― to take someone's breath away to lose (one's page in a book) (cooking) to beat together (sports) to mishit (a ball) Sie hat den Ball verschlagen ― She missed (her target) (mit Brettern verschlagen) to board up (regional) to beat up, to thrash (dated) to matter es verschlägt nichts ― it doesn't matter to matter [with dat (+ to someone)] to help, be of use, make a difference ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== Verschlagen verschlagend erschlagen, zerschlagen === Etymology 2 === From Middle High German verslagen, from Old High German firslagan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraslagan. ==== Participle ==== verschlagen past participle of verschlagen ==== Adjective ==== verschlagen (strong nominative masculine singular verschlagener, comparative verschlagener or verschlagner, superlative am verschlagensten) devious disingenuous, self-serving ===== Declension ===== ===== Related terms ===== Verschlagenheit === Further reading === “verschlagen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[6] (in German) “verschlagen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon