gewahren

See also: gewähren

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gewarn,[1] equivalent to gewahr + -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈvaːʁən/
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Verb

gewahren (weak, third-person singular present gewahrt, past tense gewahrte, past participle gewahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (literary, transitive) to become aware of
    • 1918, Meinrad Lienert, Zürcher Sagen:
      Doch die zwei Königstöchter Hildegard und Berta gewahrten nichts als den weissen Hirsch […].
      But the two princesses Hildegard and Berta saw nothing but the white hart.

Conjugation

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “gewahren”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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