schuften
B2to slave away / toil / grind away
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- to slave away / toil / grind away
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schuften in a sentence
Er schuftet jeden Tag hart.
He slaves away every day hard.
Conjugation of schuften
- Simple past (er/sie/es)
- schuftete
- Perfect
- hat geschuftet
Where schuften comes from
Das Verb ist studentischen Ursprungs und hängt wahrscheinlich mit der Wortfamilie zusammen, zu der auch schieben/Schub gehören, und stammt damit nicht vom Substantiv Schuft. Das Wort ist seit dem 19. Jahrhundert belegt.
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Questions about schuften
How do you conjugate schuften?
Present tense: ich schufte, du schuftest, er schuftet, wir schuften, ihr schuftet, sie schuften. Simple past: schuftete. Perfect: hat geschuftet.
What does schuften mean in English?
schuften means "to slave away / toil / grind away". For example: "Er schuftet jeden Tag hart." — "He slaves away every day hard."
What level is schuften in German?
schuften is a B2 word — b2 — upper-intermediate. It belongs to the working hours & shifts vocabulary.
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