kalauern

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German

Etymology

From Kalauer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

kalauern (weak, third-person singular present kalauert, past tense kalauerte, past participle gekalauert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to joke; to pun
    • 1999, Anne Holländer, Lindenstrasse: die Beimers, eine deutsche Familie, →ISBN, page 146:
      »Das ist bei uns so Ouzo«, kalauerte er und blickte Franz Schildknecht nachdenklich über den Rand seiner Brille hinweg an.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • kalauern” in Duden online
  • kalauern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache