anfallen

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See also: Anfällen

German

Etymology

an- +‎ fallen

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

anfallen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fällt an, past tense fiel an, past participle angefallen, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. to attack, to fall upon
  2. to occur, to arise
  3. (formal) to grip (someone) (of a development or sensation)

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Derived terms

References

  • 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 65

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

anfallen

  1. definite plural of anfall

Participle

anfallen

  1. past participle of anfalla