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German
Etymology
From Middle High German strāfen, most likely from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną (see Strafe (“punishment”)). Cognate with Luxembourgish strofen, Dutch straffen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): ,
- Hyphenation: stra‧fen
Verb
strafen (weak, third-person singular present straft, past tense strafte, past participle gestraft, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to punish
- Synonym: bestrafen
- 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
Das Gefängnis, das heute in Deutschland nicht mehr strafen sondern bessern und erziehen soll, ist damit sozusagen zum Lazarett der bürgerlichen Ordnung avanciert.- The prison, which today in Germany is not supposed to punish anymore but to better and educate them, has thereby advanced to the military hospital of the bourgeois order, so to speak.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
strafen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
strafen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “strafen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “strafen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “strafen” in Duden online
- “strafen” in OpenThesaurus.de