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German
Etymology
From Old High German firliosan, from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to detach”). Compare Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “loose, untie”), Latin solvō (“dissolve”), English forlorn, Dutch verliezen.
Pronunciation
Verb
verlieren (class 2 strong, third-person singular present verliert, past tense verlor, past participle verloren, past subjunctive verlöre, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to lose (something, or a game)
Ich hab' meinen Pass wieder verloren. Weißt du wo er ist?- I lost my passport again. Do you know where it is?
- 1929, Paul Hertz, Über Axiomensysteme für beliebige Satzsysteme, in: Mathematische Annalen 101
Es ist leicht zu sehen, daß man, […] überall die Variablen durch Konstanten ersetzen kann, ohne daß das Gefüge den Charakter eines Schlußsystems verlöre.- It is easy to see, that one can substitute the variables by constants everywhere, without the structure losing its character of a conclusion system.
- (transitive) to shed
- (reflexive) to trail away, to fade away
1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 79:Aber oftmals lief die kleine Dorothee […] noch viel weiter, bis dorthin, wo der regelmäßige Garten sich in einen weiten natürlichen Park verlor und allmählich in Wiesen und Wald überging.- But often the little Dorothee walked still much farther until there, where the regular garden faded away into a wide natural park and gradually fused into meadows and woods.
- (reflexive) to get lost
Ich habe mich in der Menge verloren.- I got lost in the crowd.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
verlieren (class 2
strong, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
verlieren (class 2
strong, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
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