fallen

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fallen

  1. Past participle of fall

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fallen (not comparable)

  1. having dropped by the force of gravity
    fallen raindrops
  2. (literary) killed in battle
    to honor fallen soldiers
  3. having lost one's chastity
    a fallen woman
  4. having collapsed
    a fallen building

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fallen (plural fallen)

  1. (plural only; not used in singular form) The dead
  2. (plural only; not used in singular form) Casualties of battle or war.
  3. (countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.
    • 1873, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical literature, volume 5:
      In the Augustinian period, however, sin was held to be a death-inflicting agent, implying that the fallen was dead, and had to be restored to life.

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From Old High German fallan, from Proto-Germanic *fallanan.

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  • IPA: /ˈfaln̩/, /ˈfalən/
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fallen (class 7 strong, third-person singular simple present fällt, past tense fiel, auxiliary sein, past participle gefallen)

  1. (intransitive) to fall; to drop
  2. (intransitive, military) to die; to fall in battle; to die in battle; to be killed in action
    • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 31:
      Bei einem Patrouillenritt, zu dem er sich freiwillig gemeldet, war der älteste der Enkel gefallen. Ruhte nun fern in Feindesland.
      On a patrolling ride, for which he had volunteered, the oldest of the grandchildren had died. Rested now far away in enemy country.

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fallen (infinitive fallar)

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of fallar.
  2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of fallar.
  3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of fallar.

[edit] Swedish

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past participle of falla.

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fallen

  1. fallen
    en fallen ängel
    a fallen angel
    fallna äpplen
    fallen apples

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Inflections of
fallen
Indefinite
singular
Common fallen
Neuter fallet
Definite
singular
Masc. fallne
All fallna
Plural fallna

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fallen

  1. definite plural of fall
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