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Werden

Werden

See also: werden

German

Noun

Werden n (genitive Werdens, no plural)

  1. gerund of werden; becoming (coming into being)
    • 1884, Henry James, "Pandora" [Part 2] in The New York Sun, 8 June 1884: 1–2.
      Washington had become the fashion, and possessed the great advantage of being a new resource in conversation. ...[I]n the light of these considerations the American capital took on the semblance of a monstrous, mystical Werden.

Declension

werden

werden

See also: Werden

Dutch

Verb

werden

  1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of worden

Anagrams


German

Etymology

From Middle High German wërden, from Old High German werdan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną. Cognate with Dutch worden, Swedish varda, obsolete English verb worth (to become) and also with Latin vertere (to turn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈveːɐ̯dn̩/

Verb

werden (irregular, third-person singular simple present wird, past tense wurde, past participle geworden or worden, auxiliary sein)

  1. (auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle geworden) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense
    Ich werde nach Hause gehen.
    I will go home.
  2. (auxiliary, with a past participle, past participle worden) to be done; forms the passive voice
    Das Buch wird gerade gelesen. (present tense)
    The book is being read.
    Er war geschlagen worden. (past perfect tense)
    He had been beaten.
  3. (intransitive, past participle: “geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
    Es wird heißer.
    It's getting hotter.

Conjugation


Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Dutch werthan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwerdən/

Verb

werden

  1. to become
  2. to happen, to occur
  3. to arise, to form

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants


Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German werdan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną. Cognate with Dutch worden and obsolete English verb worth (to become).

Verb

wërden

  1. to become

Conjugation

Descendants


Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • Stem vowel: ê²
    • (originally) IPA(key): /wɛːrdən/ or IPA(key): /wærdən/
    • While the combination /rd/ originally lengthened the vowel in Old Saxon, in several Middle Low German dialects it was treated like a geminate, or had actually become /r/, and in turn shortened long vowels occurring before it. Further, the vowel was shortened before /rt/ from final obstruent devoicing. Dialects then often begun to apply the more common vowel length across all forms.

Etymology

From Old Saxon wērthan (to become), from Proto-Germanic *werþaną.

Verb

wêrden or werden

  1. to become
  2. auxiliary verb used to form the passive

Conjugation