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German
Etymology
er- + wehren
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: er‧weh‧ren
Verb
erwehren (weak, third-person singular present erwehrt, past tense erwehrte, past participle erwehrt, auxiliary haben)
- (reflexive, with genitive) to resist, to fend off
2022, Marcus Land, “Künstler für die Ukraine: Momente mit Gänsehaut und voller Empathie”, in Hellweger Anzeiger:Zweieinhalb Flugstunden vom Ruhrgebiet entfernt erwehrt sich ein Volk eines kriegerischen Angriffs.- Two and a half hours by plane from the Ruhr region, a nation is fighting off a belligerent assault.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
erwehren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
erwehren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “erwehren” in Duden online
- “erwehren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “erwehren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon