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German
Etymology
From still (“quiet”).
Pronunciation
Verb
stillen (weak, third-person singular present stillt, past tense stillte, past participle gestillt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to nurse, suckle, breastfeed (a baby)
- Synonyms: die Brust geben, säugen
- (transitive) to quench (a need, e.g. hunger)
- (transitive) to ease (pain)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
stillen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
stillen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Adjective
stillen
- inflection of still:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Further reading
- “stillen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “stillen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “stillen” in Duden online
- “stillen” in OpenThesaurus.de