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German
Etymology
Harz (“resin”) + -en
Pronunciation
Verb
harzen (weak, third-person singular present harzt, past tense harzte, past participle geharzt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to resinate (to treat with resin)
2019 September 28, Felix Zimmermann, “Wirklich alles inklusive”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 28:[…] sie lobte Weine und empfahl Retsina mit Sprite, also diesen geharzten Wein mit süßer Limo (hm, na ja) und wies auf die Jahn-Reisen-Ausflüge zu Sehenswürdigkeiten hin („Lindos, ein Traum!“).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive, of a tree) to exude resin
- (Switzerland, impersonal, figurative) to drag on
2015 December 2, Marcel Hänggi, “Klimakonferenz: Fatale Signale aus Paris”, in WOZ:Es gibt viele Gründe, weshalb es in der Umweltpolitik harzt. Einer davon: Der Klimawandel hat nicht die politische Nützlichkeit des Terrorismus.- There are many reasons why environmental politics moves slowly. One of them: climate change doesn't have the political expediency of terrorism.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
harzen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
harzen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “harzen” in Duden online
- “harzen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache