gebären
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German gebërn, from Old High German gibëran, from Proto-West Germanic *gaberan, from Proto-Germanic *gaberaną. Cognate with English bear.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡəˈbɛːʁən/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /ɡəˈbeːʁən/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: ge‧bä‧ren
Verb
[edit]gebären (class 4 strong, third-person singular present gebiert or gebärt, past tense gebar, past participle geboren, past subjunctive gebäre, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to give birth; referring to labour, or to labour and pregnancy as a whole
- (transitive) to give birth to; to bear
- 1913 [1878], chapter 21, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina[1], translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 6:
- Versetzen Sie sich in die Lage eines Mannes, der vorher weiß, daß die Kinder, die ihm die geliebte Frau gebiert, nicht ihm gehören werden, sondern einem anderen, einem, der sie haßt und von ihnen nichts wissen will. Ist das nicht entsetzlich?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- The 2nd and 3rd person singular forms of the present are traditionally du gebierst, sie gebiert. The regularised forms du gebärst, sie gebärt are equally common in practice.
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | gebären | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | gebärend | ||||
| past participle | geboren | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich gebäre | wir gebären | i | ich gebäre | wir gebären |
| du gebierst du gebärst |
ihr gebärt | du gebärest | ihr gebäret | ||
| er gebiert er gebärt |
sie gebären | er gebäre | sie gebären | ||
| preterite | ich gebar | wir gebaren | ii | ich gebäre1 | wir gebären1 |
| du gebarst | ihr gebart | du gebärest1 du gebärst1 |
ihr gebäret1 ihr gebärt1 | ||
| er gebar | sie gebaren | er gebäre1 | sie gebären1 | ||
| imperative | gebier (du) gebär (du) gebäre (du) |
gebärt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Synonyms
[edit]- entbinden (referring to labour exclusively)
Derived terms
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