Pause
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From pause.
Noun
Pause (plural Pauses)
- A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.
German
Etymology
From Middle High German pūse, from Latin pausa.
Pronunciation
Noun
Pause f (genitive Pause, plural Pausen, diminutive Päuschen n)
Declension
Derived terms
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Buttons
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
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- German terms borrowed from Latin
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- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
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- German lemmas
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- German feminine nouns