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German
Etymology
English flash + -en
Pronunciation
Verb
flashen (weak, third-person singular present flasht, past tense flashte, past participle geflasht, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, computing) to flash (to write to memory)
2019 July, Andrijan Möcker, “Freie Steckdose”, in c't Projekte, Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG, →ISBN, page 95:Flashen Sie im Nachgang eine Firmware, die mit dem falschen Flash-Modus kompiliert wurde, bootet der ESP unter Umständen nicht und Sie müssen ihn über die serielle Schnittstelle neu flashen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial, youth slang) to thrill, excite, rouse
- Synonym: begeistern
2013 February 12, Jan Feddersen, quoting Anke Engelke, “„Ich bin kühn“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 13:… nein, aber mich flasht das Event [Eurovision Song Contest] schon. Am liebsten allein, mit Listen und so.- … no, but I *am* thrilled by the event . Especially when alone, with the listings and stuff.
2016, “Göttin sei Dank”, in Stärker als die Zeit, performed by Udo Lindenberg:Du bist'n Himmelskörper, wie's geiler nicht geht / Ich bin ja so geflasht—voll fasziniert- You're celestial, it doesn't get better / I'm totally in awe—full‑on amazed
2018 November 1, Jens Uthoff, “Rob Mazurek beim Jazzfest Berlin: Kreatives Leben für alle”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:Dass das Kollektiv von Sun Ra inspiriert ist, wirkt offensichtlich. „Ich hörte Sun Ra beim Chicago Jazz Festival, als ich 16 war, und es flashte mich total“, erklärt Mazurek.- It appears obvious that the collective is inspired by Sun Ra. “I heard Sun Ra at the Chicago Jazz Festival when I was 16, and it blew me away”, Mazurek explains.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
flashen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
flashen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
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