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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German langen, from Old High German langēn, from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną.
Verb
[edit]langen (weak, third-person singular present langt, past tense langte, past participle gelangt, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial, southern) to reach for something, to grab
- Synonym: greifen
- (colloquial, southern) to pass, to hand something to someone
- Synonym: reichen
- (colloquial, southern) to suffice, to be enough
- Synonyms: ausreichen, reichen, genügen
- Mir langt's.
- I've had enough
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | langen | ||||
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present participle | langend | ||||
past participle | gelangt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich lange | wir langen | i | ich lange | wir langen |
du langst | ihr langt | du langest | ihr langet | ||
er langt | sie langen | er lange | sie langen | ||
preterite | ich langte | wir langten | ii | ich langte1 | wir langten1 |
du langtest | ihr langtet | du langtest1 | ihr langtet1 | ||
er langte | sie langten | er langte1 | sie langten1 | ||
imperative | lang (du) lange (du) |
langt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Swedish: langa
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
[edit]langen
- inflection of lang:
Further reading
[edit]- “langen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “langen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “langen” in Duden online
- “langen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch *langon, from Proto-West Germanic *langijan.
Verb
[edit]langen
- to be/become long
- to lengthen, to make longer
- to touch
- to hand, to pass, to reach in order to give
- (impersonal) to long [with dative ‘subject’]
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “langhen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “langen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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