frieren

From Middle High German vrieren, vriesen, from Old High German friosan, from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *prews-. The -r- was generalised from the Middle High German past forms (as in verlieren). Cognate with German Low German freren, fresen, Dutch vriezen, English freeze, Danish fryse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriːrən/, [ˈfʁiː.ʁən], [ˈfʁiː.ɐn], [fʁi(ː)ɐ̯n]

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• Rhymes: -iːʁən

frieren (class 2 strong, third-person singular present friert, past tense fror, past participle gefroren, past subjunctive fröre, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive, of living beings or body parts) to be cold, feel cold [auxiliary haben] (unlike English freeze neither informal nor expressing extreme cold)

   Synonym: kalt sein (impersonal with dative)

   Frierst du? ― Are you cold?

   Meine Hände frieren. ― My hands are cold.

2. (dated or southern, transitive, of body parts, or impersonal of living beings) to be cold, feel cold [auxiliary haben]

   Friert es dich? ― Are you cold?

   Die Hände frieren mich. ― My hands are cold.

3. (intransitive, impersonal, of the weather) to freeze, be freezing, be below 0 degrees celsius [auxiliary haben]

   Heute Nacht soll es frieren. ― It’s going to freeze tonight.

4. (intransitive, of liquid or viscous substances, rare) Synonym of gefrieren (“to freeze, become hard through cold”) [auxiliary sein]

• einfrieren
• erfrieren
• festfrieren
• zufrieren

• “frieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “frieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “frieren” in Duden online
• “frieren” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “frieren”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

frieren

1. third-person plural future subjunctive of freír