vergilben

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German

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Etymology

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ver- +‎ gilben

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈɡɪlbn̩/
  • Hyphenation: ver‧gil‧ben
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Verb

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vergilben (weak, third-person singular present vergilbt, past tense vergilbte, past participle vergilbt, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to yellow; to turn yellow
    • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Ich wandte die vergilbten, mit Unzialschrift bedeckten Blätter um und begann zu lesen.
      I turned over the yellowed pages covered in uncial script and began to read.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • vergilben” in Duden online
  • vergilben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache