brechen

German

Etymology

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From Middle High German brechen, from Old High German brehhan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-. Akin to Old Saxon brekan, Dutch breken (“to break”), English break.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʁɛçən/, [ˈbʁɛçn̩]

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Verb

1. (transitive, auxiliary: “haben”) to break
2. (transitive, physics, auxiliary: “haben”) to refract
3. (transitive or intransitive, colloquial, auxiliary: “haben”) to vomit
4. (transitive, auxiliary: “haben”) to fold
5. (intransitive, auxiliary: “sein”) to become broken; to break; to fracture

Derived terms

Derived terms

• abbrechen
• anbrechen
• aufbrechen
• ausbrechen
• bahnbrechend
• Brache
• Brechbohnen
• Brechdurchfall
• Breche
• Brecheisen
• Brecher
• Brechmittel
• Brechnuss
• Brechreiz
• Brechstange
• Brechung
• Brechzahl
• Bresche
• Brocken
• Bruch
• durchbrechen

• ehebrechen
• einbrechen
• entzweibrechen
• erbrechen
• gebrechen
• herausbrechen
• hereinbrechen
• herniederbrechen
• herunterbrechen
• hochbrechen
• losbrechen
• niederbrechen
• Pracht
• prägen
• umbrechen
• unterbrechen
• verbrechen
• wegbrechen
• Wellenbrecher
• zerbrechen
• zusammenbrechen

Further reading

• “brechen” in Duden online