stunden

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See also: Stunden and stünden

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Middle Low German stunden.

Verb[edit]

stunden (weak, third-person singular present stundet, past tense stundete, past participle gestundet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to defer (due date; performance upon an obligation)
    • 1964 [1953], Ingeborg Bachmann, Die gestundete Zeit, page 16:
      Es kommen härtere Tagen. / Die auf Widerruf gestundete Zeit / wird sichtbar am Horizont.
      Day that are harder come. / The time postponed revocably / becomes apparent on horizon
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Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

stunden

  1. archaic form of standen (first/third-person plural preterite of stehen)

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

stunden

  1. Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Noun[edit]

stunden m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of stund

Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

stunden

  1. definite singular of stund

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