hauen

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

hauen

1. genitive plural of hau

hauen

1. genitive plural of hau

hauen

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

hauen

1. genitive singular of hauki

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

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• Hyphenation: hau‧en

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

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.

• (beat, hit): schlagen
• (fight): prügeln

• Hauer
• Haue
• Hieb

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæʉ̯.ən/, /ˈhœʉ̯.ən/

hauen m

1. definite singular of hau