morden
See also: Morden
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Etymology
From Middle High German morden, mörden, mürden, from Old High German morden, murden, from Proto-West Germanic *murþijan, from Proto-Germanic *murþijaną. The form was continuously readapted to the noun. Equivalent to Mord + -en.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔrdən/, [ˈmɔʁ.dn̩], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-dən]
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Verb
morden (weak, third-person singular present mordet, past tense mordete, past participle gemordet, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to commit murder
- 1835, Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod:
- Was ist das, was in uns lügt, hurt, stiehlt und mordet?
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- (transitive, now rare) to murder
- Synonym: ermorden
- 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein trilogy), 5. Aufzug, 4. Auftritt; republished as S. T. Coleridge, transl., The Death of Wallenstein, 1800:
- Er schläft! O mordet nicht den heil'gen Schlaf!
- He sleeps! Oh, murder not the holy sleep!
Conjugation
infinitive | morden | ||||
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present participle | mordend | ||||
past participle | gemordet | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich morde | wir morden | i | ich morde | wir morden |
du mordest | ihr mordet | du mordest | ihr mordet | ||
er mordet | sie morden | er morde | sie morden | ||
preterite | ich mordete | wir mordeten | ii | ich mordete1 | wir mordeten1 |
du mordetest | ihr mordetet | du mordetest1 | ihr mordetet1 | ||
er mordete | sie mordeten | er mordete1 | sie mordeten1 | ||
imperative | mord (du) morde (du) |
mordet (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmoːrːten/
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