ätzen

See also: Atzen and Ätzen

German

Alternative forms
  • etzen (Early Modern German)

Etymology

From Middle High German etzen, from Old High German ezzen, from Proto-West Germanic *attjan, from Proto-Germanic *atjaną.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʔɛtsn̩], [ˈʔɛtsən]
  • Audio(file)

Verb

ätzen (weak, third-person singular present ätzt, past tense ätzte, past participle geätzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to etch
  2. to cauterize
  3. (figurative) to provoke, rant
    • 2019 June 17, Michael Bartsch, “Kommentar OB-Wahl in Görlitz: Noch nichts gewonnen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:
      Beide mobilisierten immerhin ein Drittel des Wählerpotenzials. Bei den Rechtsnationalen ätzte man auch prompt gegen die „Blockparteien“.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Danish: ætse
  • → Finnish: etsata
  • → Dutch: etsen

Further reading
  • “ätzen” in Duden online
  • “ätzen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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