kürzen

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See also: kurzen and kurzeń

German

Etymology

Deadjectival from kurz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkʏʁtsən/,
  • Hyphenation: kür‧zen

Verb

kürzen (weak, third-person singular present kürzt, past tense kürzte, past participle gekürzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to shorten
    Synonym: kürzer machen
  2. (transitive) to abbreviate
  3. (literature) to abridge
  4. (mathematics) to cancel (a fraction, equation or term)
    Antonym: erweitern

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Further reading

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