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German
Etymology
ab- + laden
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ab‧la‧den
- IPA(key): /ˈapˌlaːdən/,
Verb
abladen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt ab, past tense lud ab, past participle abgeladen, past subjunctive lüde ab, auxiliary haben)
- to unload
- to put away or down the freight
Die Ware ist vom Lastwagen abgeladen worden.- The wares have been unloaded from the truck.
Nachdem er der Paketbote das Paket im Keller abgeladen hatte, konnte er die Zahlung entgegennehmen.- After putting the parcel in the basement (i. e. from his shoulders or arms), the courier could take the payment.
- Antonym: aufladen
- Hyponym: (if it was in the inner of something) ausladen
- to empty by put away the freight from the inner of
Der Lastwagen ist abgeladen worden.- The truck has been unloaded
- Antonym: beladen
- (transferred senses, slightly informal)
- to pass on, to ascribe the responsibility for (to do a labelling speech act compared to literal unloading)
Schuld abladen verboten!- Passing on guilt is forbidden! (A sign one can buy)
- Synonyms: abwälzen, abschieben
- by pass on and thus make affected by (in a manner which is compared to literal unloading)
Als er nach Hause kam, hat er seinen Groll abgeladen.- When he came home he unloaded his anger.
- to do both of the two aforementioned in one – to make affected by ascribing to
Da er sah, dass er es nicht kann, hat er die Verantwortung auf mich abgeladen.- As he saw that he cannot do it he put me into the responsibility for it.
- to cancel the subpoena of
Der Zeuge ist vom Gericht nicht wirksam abgeladen worden, so dass seine Verpflichtung zu erscheinen fortbestand.- The witness has not received an effective cancellation of his due date by the court so that he was still legally required to appear for testimony.
- Antonym: laden
Conjugation
Conjugation of
abladen (class 6
strong, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Subordinate-clause forms of
abladen (class 6
strong, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
abladen (class 6
strong, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “abladen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “abladen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “abladen” in Duden online
- “abladen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Michael Robert, Karin Doerr (2002) Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 50