reiten

Etymology
From, from , from , from. A preform does not exist, only northwest-European forms.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to ride; to do horseriding
 * 2)  to ride (someone or something), to ride on the back of

Usage notes

 * In intransitive use, the normal auxiliary is . When referring to horseriding as a sport, is possible alternatively: “Ich habe früher geritten.”
 * For transitive use, prescriptive grammar requires : “Er hat das Pferd geritten”; but “Er ist das Pferd geritten” is also common in practice.

Conjugation

 * In dialectal or archaic usage the third-person singular of the present may be (also spelt ).

Adjective

 * 1) quarrelsome, mocking