See also: kurzen and kurzeń

German

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Etymology

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Deadjectival from kurz.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʏʁtsən/, [ˈkʰʏɐ̯tsn̩]
  • Hyphenation: kür‧zen

Verb

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kürzen (weak, third-person singular present kürzt, past tense kürzte, past participle gekürzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to shorten
    Synonym: kürzer machen
  2. (transitive) to abbreviate
  3. (literature) to abridge
  4. (mathematics) to cancel (a fraction, equation or term)
    Antonym: erweitern

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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