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Kiesen

Kiesen

See also: kiesen

German

Noun

Kiesen m

  1. dative plural of Kies

kiesen

kiesen

See also: Kiesen

German

Verb

kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular simple present kiest, past tense kor, past participle gekoren, past subjunctive köre, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, archaic, partly obsolete) to choose; to select

Usage notes

  • The verb is defective in contemporary German. The present forms (stem kies-) are obsolete and unintelligible to the average native speaker. The past forms (stem kor-) are archaic, but likely to be understood.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kiosan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-.

Verb

kiesen

  1. to test, to inspect, to assess
  2. to choose, to select

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants


Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German kiosan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-.

Verb

kiesen

  1. to choose

Conjugation

Descendants