verlieren
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German verliesen, from Old High German firliosan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraleusan, from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to detach”). Compare Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “loose, untie”), Latin solvō (“dissolve”), English forlorn, Dutch verliezen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]verlieren (class 2 strong, third-person singular present verliert, past tense verlor, past participle verloren, past subjunctive verlöre, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to lose (something, or a game)
- Ich hab' meinen Pass wieder verloren. Weißt du wo er ist?
- I lost my passport again. Do you know where it is?
- 1929, Paul Hertz, Über Axiomensysteme für beliebige Satzsysteme, in: Mathematische Annalen 101
- Es ist leicht zu sehen, daß man, […] überall die Variablen durch Konstanten ersetzen kann, ohne daß das Gefüge den Charakter eines Schlußsystems verlöre.
- It is easy to see, that […] one can substitute the variables by constants everywhere, without the structure losing its character of a conclusion system.
- (transitive) to shed
- (reflexive) to trail away, to fade away
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 79:
- Aber oftmals lief die kleine Dorothee […] noch viel weiter, bis dorthin, wo der regelmäßige Garten sich in einen weiten natürlichen Park verlor und allmählich in Wiesen und Wald überging.
- But often the little Dorothee […] walked still much farther until there, where the regular garden faded away into a wide natural park and gradually fused into meadows and woods.
- (reflexive) to get lost
- Ich habe mich in der Menge verloren.
- I got lost in the crowd.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | verlieren | ||||
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present participle | verlierend | ||||
past participle | verloren | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich verliere | wir verlieren | i | ich verliere | wir verlieren |
du verlierst | ihr verliert | du verlierest | ihr verlieret | ||
er verliert | sie verlieren | er verliere | sie verlieren | ||
preterite | ich verlor | wir verloren | ii | ich verlöre1 | wir verlören1 |
du verlorst | ihr verlort | du verlörest1 du verlörst1 |
ihr verlöret1 ihr verlört1 | ||
er verlor | sie verloren | er verlöre1 | sie verlören1 | ||
imperative | verlier (du) verliere (du) |
verliert (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “verlieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “verlieren” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “verlieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “verlieren” in Duden online
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