schaffen

Pronunciation: /ˈʃafən/

“schaffen” is a German word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

to create, to call into being
to create, make, form, shape
to create, produce, bring about, establish
to get done, to accomplish, achieve, to succeed with
to manage, to make it
to get, take, carry (something somewhere)
to do, to busy oneself
to work

Etymology

From Middle High German schaffen (strong verb), from Old High German scafan, scaffen, byform of skephen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan. The form with -f- was chiefly backformed from the past participle giscaffan, but was also influenced by the regular present conjugations du skeffis, er skeffit, and by the weak verb in etymology 2 below. The form skephen survives in the (now archaic) variant…

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