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German
Pronunciation
Verb
gurren (weak, third-person singular present gurrt, past tense gurrte, past participle gegurrt, auxiliary haben)
- (of birds) to make a low sound
- (usually, of pigeons) to coo
- 1921, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Trommel, in Weberin Schuld, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 8:
Dazu zirpten unzählige Zikaden, […], wilde Tauben gurrten wie im Traume.- In addition countless cicadas chirped, , wild pigeons cooed like in a dream.
- (less common, of chickens) to cluck
Conjugation
Conjugation of
gurren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
gurren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “gurren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “gurren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “gurren” in Duden online
- “gurren” in OpenThesaurus.de