stimmen

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German stimmen, from Old High German *stimmen (attested in Old High German gistimmen), from the same source as German Stimme (voice, vote).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtɪmən/, [ˈʃtimɛn], [ˈʃtɪmn̩]
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  • Hyphenation: stim‧men

Verb

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stimmen (weak, third-person singular present stimmt, past tense stimmte, past participle gestimmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to be true
    Was stimmt mit dir nicht?What's wrong with you?
    Das stimmt!That's for sure!
    • 1969, Peter Bichsel, Kindergeschichten:
      Tag und Nacht saß er über seinen Plänen und prüfte sie nach, und sie stimmten.
      Day and night he sat over his plans and checked them; and they were right.
  2. to vote [with für (+ accusative) ‘for’]
    Ich persönlich werde dafür stimmen.I, personally, will be voting in favour of it.
  3. (music, an instrument) to tune
  4. (with an adjective of emotion, transitive) to make (someone happy, sad, etc.)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • stimmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • stimmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • stimmen” in Duden online
  • stimmen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Swedish

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Noun

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stimmen

  1. definite plural of stim

Anagrams

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West Frisian

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Noun

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stimmen

  1. plural of stim