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German
Etymology
From Middle High German raffen, reffen, from Old High German *hraffon (“to snatch, seize”).
Pronunciation
Verb
raffen (weak, third-person singular present rafft, past tense raffte, past participle gerafft, auxiliary haben)
- to snatch up, grasp
- (colloquial) to understand
- Synonyms: verstehen; see also Thesaurus:begreifen
2001, “Ich möchte nicht, dass ihr meine Lieder singt”, performed by Jan Delay:Den wegen Leuten wie dir tu' ich die machen / Leute die mich wegen irgend 'ner Scheiße volllabern / Ohne den Inhalt der Texte zu raffen- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
raffen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
raffen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “raffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “raffen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “raffen” in Duden online
- “raffen” in OpenThesaurus.de