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German
Verb
stahn (irregular strong, third-person singular present staht, past tense stand or stund, past participle gestanden or gestahn)
- (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of stehen
Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German stân, from Old Saxon stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stān, from Proto-Germanic *stāną. Cognate with Dutch staan, German stehen, English stand, West Frisian stean, Danish stå.
Pronunciation
Verb
stahn (past singular stunn, past participle stahn, auxiliary verb hebben)
- (intransitive) to stand, to be upright
- (intransitive) to be, to be placed or located
Op dat Plattdüütschland steiht en Huus.- In Low Saxon Germany there is a house.
- (intransitive, with to and another verb) Used as an alternative to wesen + an't to form a continuous aspect.
Wat steihst du dor to doon? / Wat steihst du dor an't doon?- What are you doing there?
- to say, to indicate in a written form
In de Grundwett steiht wiss wölkeen de Macht hett in en Land un woans he oder se de hiersten bruken mutt.- In the constitution it says exactly who's in power in a country and how he or she must use this power.
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Conjugation of stahn (preterite-present verb)
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