bändigen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German bendec.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bän‧di‧gen

Verb

bändigen (weak, third-person singular present bändigt, past tense bändigte, past participle gebändigt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to tame, to restrain, to subdue

Conjugation

References

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

Further reading

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