gewahren

See also: gewähren

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gewarn,[1] equivalent to gewahr + -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈvaːʁən/
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Verb

gewahren (weak, third-person singular present gewahrt, past tense gewahrte, past participle gewahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (literary, transitive) to become aware of
    1918, Meinrad Lienert, Zürcher Sagen:
    Doch die zwei Königstöchter Hildegard und Berta gewahrten nichts als den weissen Hirsch […].
    But the two princesses Hildegard and Berta saw nothing but the white hart.

Conjugation

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), gewahren”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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