stahn

German[edit]

stahn (irregular strong, third-person singular present staht, past tense stand or stund, past participle gestanden or gestahn)

(archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of stehen
- 1778, Simon Dach, translated by Johann Gottfried Herder, Ännchen von Tharau:
  Käm alles Wetter gleich auf, uns zu schlahn, / Wir sind gesinnt, beieinander zu stahn.
  Though all weathers should rise to strike us, / We are determined to stand by each other.

stahn (past singular stunn, past participle stahn, auxiliary verb hebben)

(intransitive) to stand, to be upright
(intransitive) to be, to be placed or located
Op dat Plattdüütschland steiht en Huus.
In Low Saxon Germany there is a house.
(intransitive, with to and another verb) Used as an alternative to wesen + an't to form a continuous aspect.
Wat steihst du dor to doon? / Wat steihst du dor an't doon?
What are you doing there?
to say, to indicate in a written form
In de Grundwett steiht wiss wölkeen de Macht hett in en Land un woans he oder se de hiersten bruken mutt.
In the constitution it says exactly who's in power in a country and how he or she must use this power.

Conjugation of stahn (preterite-present verb)

indicative	present	preterite
infinitive	stahn
1st person singular	stah	stunn
2nd person singular	steihst	stunnst
3rd person singular	steiht	stunn
plural	staht	stunnen
imperative	present	—
singular	stah
plural	staht
participle	present	past
	stahn	stahn
Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.