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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
morden
- inflection of morren:
- plural past indicative
- (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive
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Galician
Verb
morden
- third-person plural present indicative of morder
German
Etymology
From Middle High German morden, mörden, mürden, from Old High German morden, murden, from Proto-West Germanic *murþijan, from Proto-Germanic *murþijaną. The form was continuously readapted to the noun. Equivalent to Mord + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
morden (weak, third-person singular present mordet, past tense mordete, past participle gemordet, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to commit murder
- (transitive, now rare) to murder
- Synonym: ermorden
1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein trilogy), 5. Aufzug, 4. Auftritt; republished as S. T. Coleridge, transl., The Death of Wallenstein, 1800:Er schläft! O mordet nicht den heil'gen Schlaf!- He sleeps! Oh, murder not the holy sleep!
Conjugation
Conjugation of
morden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
morden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “morden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “morden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “morden” in Duden online
- “morden” in OpenThesaurus.de
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmoːrːten/
Verb
mōrden
- first-person singular past indicative of moardit
Swedish
Noun
morden
- definite plural of mord
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