schöpfen

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃœpfən/
• Hyphenation: schöp‧fen

From Middle High German schepfen, from Old High German scaphan, skepfen, scephen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną, causative of modern German schaffen, with rounding triggered by the surrounding consonants.

schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben)

1. to create (clarification of this definition is needed)

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

From Middle High German schepfen, from scheffen, from Old High German scephen, from Proto-Germanic *skuppōną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. Related to Schaff (“wooden container, barrel”), English scoop.

schöpfen (weak, third-person singular present schöpft, past tense schöpfte, past participle geschöpft, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, with aus + dative) to draw (water or air, for example), scoop up
2. to derive

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

• “schöpfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schöpfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schöpfen” in Duden online
• “schöpfen” in OpenThesaurus.de