See also: Langen, Längen, and lången

German edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle High German langen, from Old High German langēn, from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną.

Verb edit

langen (weak, third-person singular present langt, past tense langte, past participle gelangt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial, southern) to reach for something, to grab
    Synonym: greifen
  2. (colloquial, southern) to pass, to hand something to someone
    Synonym: reichen
  3. (colloquial, southern) to suffice, to be enough
    Synonyms: ausreichen, reichen, genügen
    Mir langt's.
    I've had enough
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Swedish: langa

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

langen

  1. inflection of lang:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Further reading edit

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

Middle Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Old Dutch *langon, from Proto-West Germanic *langijan.

Verb edit

langen

  1. to be/become long
  2. to lengthen, to make longer
  3. to touch
  4. to hand, to pass, to reach in order to give
  5. (impersonal) to long [+dative = subject]

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