grauen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German grūwen, from Old High German (in)grūēn, probably from or related to Proto-West Germanic *grīsan (to be frightened).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaʊ̯ən/
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Verb

grauen (weak, third-person singular present graut, past tense graute, past participle gegraut, auxiliary haben)

  1. (impersonal) to cause terror
    Mir graut es schon vor der Prüfung.
    I am already terrified of the exam.
  2. (reflexive) to be terrified
    Ich graue mich vor der morgigen Prüfung.
    I am already terrified of tomorrow's exam.
  3. (intransitive, of the morning) to break
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, ich aber las und las und hatte nicht gehört, daß man drüben von der Erlöserkirche längst schon zur Frühmesse geläutet hatte.
      And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning broke, however I read and read and hadn't heard that they had already long since sounded the knell of the early mass at the Church of the Redeemer.
  4. to become grey
    Sein Fell graut.His fur is turning grey.

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Adjective

grauen

  1. inflection of grau:
    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

  • grauen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • grauen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • grauen” in Duden online