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German
Etymology 1
Compare Junges (“young of an animal, offspring”).
Pronunciation
Verb
jungen (weak, third-person singular present jungt, past tense jungte, past participle gejungt, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive, of animals, especially pets) to give birth
- Synonym: werfen
- Meine Katze wird bald jungen. ― My cat will have offspring soon.
Further reading
- “jungen” in Duden online
- “jungen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Etymology 2
Adjective
jungen
- inflection of jung:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural