See also: Grausen

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German grūsen, from Old High German (ir)grū(wi)sōn, from the root of grauen (dread, horror).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zn̩], [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zən]
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  • Hyphenation: grau‧sen

Verb

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grausen (weak, third-person singular present graust, past tense grauste, past participle gegraust, auxiliary haben)

  1. (impersonal) to cause to feel dread [with accusative or dative ‘someone’, along with vor (+ dative) ‘of something’] (idiomatically translated by English dread with the dative or accusative object as the subject)
    Mir/Mich graust es vor der Nacht.
    I dread the night.
  2. (reflexive) to feel dread [with vor (+ dative) ‘of something’]
    Ich grause mich vor Spinnen.
    I dread spiders.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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