verschlucken

== German == === Etymology === From ver- +‎ schlucken (“to swallow”). In “to swallow up”, the prefix is used in the sense of “entirely, completely”. In “to choke”, it is used in the sense of “wrongly, faultily” (equivalent to English *to mis-swallow). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ferˈʃlʊkən/, [fɐˈʃlʊ.kŋ̍], [fɛɐ̯-], [-k(ə)n] Hyphenation: ver‧schlu‧cken === Verb === verschlucken (weak, third-person singular present verschluckt, past tense verschluckte, past participle verschluckt, auxiliary haben) (transitive, also figurative) to swallow, swallow up (reflexive) to choke [with an (+ dative) ‘on something’], to get (something) down the wrong pipe (have food etc. enter into one's windpipe) Synonyms: in den falschen Hals kriegen, in die falsche Kehle kriegen, (Austria) sich verkutzen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “verschlucken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “verschlucken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “verschlucken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “verschlucken” in Duden online