trauern

German

Etymology

From Middle High German trūren, from Old High German trūrēn, from Western Proto-Germanic *drūrēn-.[1] See Trauer (mourning).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁaʊ̯ɐn/
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  • Hyphenation: trau‧ern

Verb

trauern (weak, third-person singular present trauert, past tense trauerte, past participle getrauert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to mourn
    Wer einen geliebten Menschen verloren hat, trauert um ihn.
    Anyone who has lost a loved one mourns for him.
  2. to be sad

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*deurja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 94

Further reading

  • trauern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • trauern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • trauern” in Duden online
  • trauern” in OpenThesaurus.de
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