behend

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German

Adjective

behend (strong nominative masculine singular behender, comparative behender, superlative am behendesten)

  1. Formerly standard spelling of behänd which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Vor dem Tor”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil:
      Sieh nur, sieh! wie behend sich die Menge / Durch die Gärten und Felder zerschlägt, / Wie der Fluß, in Breit und Länge / So manchen lustigen Nachen bewegt,
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension