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German
Etymology
ver- + statten.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fərˈʃtatən/
- Hyphenation: ver‧stat‧ten
Verb
verstatten (weak, third-person singular present verstattet, past tense verstattete, past participle verstattet, auxiliary haben) (transitive)
- (now literary) to allow, to permit
- (now literary) to allocate, to provide
1930–1943, Robert Musil, “Ein Mann mit allen Eigenschaften, aber sie sind ihm gleichgültig. Ein Fürst des Geistes wird verhaftet, und die Parallelaktion erhält ihren Ehrensekretär”, in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften [The Man Without Qualities], book 1, Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, published 1957:So fuhr Ulrich wenige Minuten später in einem Wagen, den man ihm verstattet hatte, durch die Nacht dahin, einen wenig zu Gespräch geneigten Zivilschutzmann an seiner Seite.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
verstatten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
verstatten (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
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