nahestehen

German

Etymology

nahe + stehen

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnaːəˌʃteːən]
  • Hyphenation: na‧he‧ste‧hen

Verb

nahestehen (irregular, third-person singular simple present steht nahe, past tense stand nahe, past participle nahegestanden, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. to have a close connection to
  2. to be similar in respect to a certain trait [+dative = similar to whom] [+ in (object) = by which trait]

Conjugation

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