gestatten

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German gestaten, Old High German gistatōn.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈʃtatn̩/
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Verb

gestatten (weak, third-person singular present gestattet, past tense gestattete, past participle gestattet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to allow
    Synonyms: erlauben, genehmigen, bewilligen

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “gestatten”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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