strafen
See also: Strafen
German
Etymology
From Middle High German strāfen, most likely from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną. Cognate with Luxembourgish strofen, Dutch straffen.
Pronunciation
Verb
strafen (weak, third-person singular present straft, past tense strafte, past participle gestraft, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to punish
- Synonym: bestrafen
- 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
- Das Gefängnis, das heute in Deutschland nicht mehr strafen sondern bessern und erziehen soll, ist damit sozusagen zum Lazarett der bürgerlichen Ordnung avanciert.
- The prison, which today in Germany is not supposed to punish anymore but to better and educate them, has thereby advanced to the military hospital of the bourgeois order, so to speak.
Conjugation
infinitive | strafen | ||||
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present participle | strafend | ||||
past participle | gestraft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich strafe | wir strafen | i | ich strafe | wir strafen |
du strafst | ihr straft | du strafest | ihr strafet | ||
er straft | sie strafen | er strafe | sie strafen | ||
preterite | ich strafte | wir straften | ii | ich strafte1 | wir straften1 |
du straftest | ihr straftet | du straftest1 | ihr straftet1 | ||
er strafte | sie straften | er strafte1 | sie straften1 | ||
imperative | straf (du) strafe (du) |
straft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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