fragen

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German vrāgen, from Old High German frāgēn, frahēn/frāhēn, which is indirectly derived from Proto-Germanic *frēgōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁaːɡən/, [ˈfʁaːɡŋ̩]
  • Rhymes: -aːɡn̩
  • Hyphenation: fra‧gen

Verb

fragen (third-person singular present fragt or frägt, past tense fragte or frug, past participle gefragt)

  1. to ask (nach for/after)
  2. (reflexive) to wonder
    Ich frage mich, wer mir helfen kann.
    I wonder who can help me.

Usage notes

  • Generally, fragen has always been a weak verb.
  • The strong forms of fragen are secondary and now obsolete in formal writing. They live on in dialects and colloquial varieties.

Conjugation

Weak conjugation

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Strong conjugation (rare)

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Frage, fragen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading

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