faulen

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaʊ̯lən/
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Etymology 1

From Middle High German fūlen, vūlen, from Old High German fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (to become foul; rot; decay).

Verb

faulen (weak, third-person singular present fault, past tense faulte, past participle gefault, auxiliary sein)

  1. to rot (become decomposed by microorganisms)
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

faulen

  1. inflection of faul:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Further reading

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

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German vūlen, from Old High German fūlēn, from Proto-West Germanic *fūl.

Pronunciation

Verb

faulen (third-person singular present fault, past participle gefault, auxiliary verb sinn)

  1. (intransitive) to rot, to decay

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive faulen
participle gefault
auxiliary sinn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular faulen
2nd singular fauls faul
3rd singular fault
1st plural faulen
2nd plural fault fault
3rd plural faulen
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.