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Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
bomben
- third-person plural present indicative of bombar
Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bombən/,
Noun
bomben c
- definite singular of bombe
Verb
bomben
- gerund of bombe
German
Etymology
From Bombe + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
bomben (weak, third-person singular present bombt, past tense bombte, past participle gebombt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to bomb (detonate explosives)
Die NATO bombt, wo es ihr gefällt.- NATO bombs wherever it likes.
- (transitive) to bomb (someone or something) into some state
Deutschland wollte die Briten zur Zusammenarbeit bomben.- Germany wanted to bomb the British into cooperation.
Usage notes
- There is a transitive derivation bebomben, but this is very rare. The normal transitive equivalent is bombardieren, which however tends to imply shelling or dropping of bombs. For a sentence such as “Terrorists have bombed a supermarket” one could say Terroristen haben in einem Supermarkt eine Bombe gezündet.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
bomben (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
bomben (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
bomben m or f
- definite singular of bombe
Swedish
Noun
bomben
- definite singular of bomb