stimmen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German stimmen, from Old High German *stimmen (attested in Old High German gistimmen), from the same source as German Stimme (voice, vote).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɪmən/, [ˈʃtɪmn̩]
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  • Hyphenation: stim‧men

Verb

stimmen (weak, third-person singular present stimmt, past tense stimmte, past participle gestimmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to be true
    Was stimmt mit dir nicht?What's wrong with you?
    Das stimmt!That's for sure!
    • 1969, Peter Bichsel, Kindergeschichten:
      Tag und Nacht saß er über seinen Plänen und prüfte sie nach, und sie stimmten.
      Day and night he sat over his plans and checked them; and they were right.
  2. to vote
  3. (music, an instrument) to tune
  4. (with an adjective of emotion, transitive) to make (someone happy, sad, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • stimmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • stimmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • stimmen” in Duden online
  • stimmen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Swedish

Noun

stimmen

  1. (deprecated template usage) definite plural of stim

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West Frisian

Noun

stimmen

  1. plural of stim