stopfen

See also: Stopfen

German

Alternative forms

  • stoppen (in this sense only colloquial; northern and central Germany)

Etymology

Middle High German stopfen, from Old High German stopfōn (“to close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɔpfən/, [ˈʃtɔpfn̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpfm̩ ~ ˈʃtɔpɸm̩]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: stop‧fen

Verb

stopfen (weak, third-person singular present stopft, past tense stopfte, past participle gestopft, auxiliary haben)

  1. to stuff, to plug
  2. to darn (mend by sewing over)
    Socken stopfen ― to darn socks

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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