umwenden

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊmvɛndn̩/
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  • Hyphenation: um‧wen‧den

Verb

umwenden (irregular weak or weak, third-person singular present wendet um, past tense wandte um or wendete um, past participle umgewandt or umgewendet, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive) to turn over; to turn inside out
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Ich wandte die vergilbten, mit Unzialschrift bedeckten Blätter um und begann zu lesen.
      I turned over the yellowed pages covered in uncial script and began to read.
  2. (intransitive) to turn around, to go back (when traveling)
  3. (reflexive) to turn around (of one's body)
    • 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Gespenster:
      Da erst nahm sie die Hände aus dem heißen Waschwasser, wandte sich um und sah ihn an.
      Then she took her hands out of the hot dishwater, turned around and looked at him.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • umwenden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • umwenden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • umwenden” in Duden online