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German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German stunden.
Verb
stunden (weak, third-person singular present stundet, past tense stundete, past participle gestundet, auxiliary haben)
- to defer (due date; performance upon an obligation)
1964 [1953], Ingeborg Bachmann, Die gestundete Zeit, page 16:Es kommen härtere Tagen. / Die auf Widerruf gestundete Zeit / wird sichtbar am Horizont.- Day that are harder come. / The time postponed revocably / becomes apparent on horizon
Conjugation
Conjugation of
stunden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
stunden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Etymology 2
Verb
stunden
- archaic form of standen (“first/third-person plural preterite of stehen”)
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
stunden
- Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
stunden m or f
- definite masculine singular of stund
Swedish
Noun
stunden
- definite singular of stund
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