hauen

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Basque

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯en/
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯en/
  • Rhymes: -au̯en
  • Hyphenation: hau‧en

Determiner

hauen

  1. genitive plural of hau

Pronoun

hauen

  1. genitive plural of hau

Catalan

Verb

hauen

  1. third-person plural present indicative of haver
  2. third-person plural present indicative of heure

Finnish

Noun

hauen

  1. genitive singular of hauki

German

Etymology

From Middle High German houwen, Old High German houwan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. Cognate with English hew.

Pronunciation

Verb

hauen (weak or class 7 strong, third-person singular present haut, past tense haute or hieb, past participle gehauen or (only in some regional vernaculars) gehaut, auxiliary haben)

  1. (literary) to thrust, slash (with a weapon)
    Er hieb nach meinem Helm.He thrust for my helmet.
  2. (transitive) to cut, hew
    Der Einbrecher haut ein Loch in die Wand.The burglar cuts a hole in the wall.
  3. (colloquial) to hit, beat, bang, whack
    Meine Mutter hat ihn gehauen.My mother hit him.
    Sie haute die Nägel in die Wand.She banged the nails into the wall
  4. (reflexive, colloquial) to fling oneself
    Ich werde mich in die Falle hauen.I'm going to hit the sack
  5. (regional) to chop, chop down

Usage notes

The strong preterite form hieb is only common in the literary sense of to thrust, and also in the set phrase in die gleiche Kerbe hauen, otherwise it's rare and/or stilted, with haute being used instead. However, the main past participle is still gehauen outside of some regional vernaculars.

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Further reading

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhæʉ̯.ən/, /ˈhœʉ̯.ən/

Noun

hauen m

  1. definite singular of hau