wahren

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German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German warn, waren, from Old High German warōn, ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *warōn. Related to biwarōn, from wara (attention). Compare German bewahren.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaːrən/, , ,
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  • Hyphenation: wah‧ren
  • Homophones: waren, Waren (general), Wahn (some speakers in casual speech)

Verb

wahren (weak, third-person singular present wahrt, past tense wahrte, past participle gewahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to protect, to safeguard
    Synonyms: beschützen, bewachen, schützen, sichern, verteidigen
  2. to maintain, to preserve
    Synonyms: aufrechterhalten, beibehalten, behalten, bewahren, erhalten, festhalten
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Descendants
  • Kashubian: warac

Etymology 2

Adjective

wahren

  1. inflection of wahr:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Further reading

  • wahren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • wahren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • wahren” in Duden online
  • wahren” in OpenThesaurus.de