zuziehen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German zuoziehen, from Old High German zuoziohan. Analysable as zu (“to; shut”) +‎ ziehen (“pull, move”). === Pronunciation === === Verb === zuziehen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present zieht zu, past tense zog zu, past participle zugezogen, past subjunctive zöge zu, auxiliary haben) (intransitive) to move here; to come to a place (from the perspective of those already living there) die zuziehenden Ausländer ― the foreigners who are coming here (transitive) to draw (together); to shut by pulling die Vorhänge zuziehen ― to draw the curtains (transitive, dative reflexive) to sustain, to contract, to incur, to pick up sich eine Verletzung zuziehen ― to sustain an injury (reflexive, often impersonal) to become cloudy; to cloud over Es zieht sich zu. ― It’s clouding over. ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “zuziehen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “zuziehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “zuziehen” in Duden online