grauen

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German grūwen, from Old High German (in)grūēn, probably from or related to Proto-West Germanic *grīsan (to be frightened).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaʊ̯ən/
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Verb

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grauen (weak, third-person singular present graut, past tense graute, past participle gegraut, auxiliary haben)

  1. (impersonal) to cause terror [with dative ‘in someone’ and vor (+ dative) ‘because of something’]
    Mir graut es schon vor der Prüfung.
    I am already terrified of the exam.
  2. (reflexive) to be terrified [with vor (+ dative) ‘of something’]
    Ich graue mich vor der morgigen Prüfung.
    I am already terrified of tomorrow's exam.
  3. (intransitive, of the morning) to break
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, ich aber las und las und hatte nicht gehört, daß man drüben von der Erlöserkirche längst schon zur Frühmesse geläutet hatte.
      And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning broke, however I read and read and hadn't heard that they had already long since sounded the knell of the early mass at the Church of the Redeemer.
  4. to become grey
    Sein Fell graut.His fur is turning grey.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Adjective

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grauen

  1. inflection of grau:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Further reading

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  • grauen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • grauen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • grauen” in Duden online