stahn
German edit
Verb edit
stahn (irregular strong, third-person singular present staht, past tense stand or stund, past participle gestanden or gestahn)
- (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of stehen
- 1778, Simon Dach, translated by Johann Gottfried Herder, Ännchen von Tharau:
- Käm alles Wetter gleich auf, uns zu schlahn, / Wir sind gesinnt, beieinander zu stahn.
- Though all weathers should rise to strike us, / We are determined to stand by each other.
Low German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German stân, from Old Saxon stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stān, from Proto-Germanic *stāną. Cognate with Dutch staan, German stehen, English stand, West Frisian stean, Danish stå.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
stahn (past singular stunn, past participle stahn, auxiliary verb hebben)
- (intransitive) to stand, to be upright
- (intransitive) to be, to be placed or located
- Op dat Plattdüütschland steiht en Huus.
- In Low Saxon Germany there is a house.
- (intransitive, with to and another verb) Used as an alternative to wesen + an't to form a continuous aspect.
- Wat steihst du dor to doon? / Wat steihst du dor an't doon?
- What are you doing there?
- to say, to indicate in a written form
- In de Grundwett steiht wiss wölkeen de Macht hett in en Land un woans he oder se de hiersten bruken mutt.
- In the constitution it says exactly who's in power in a country and how he or she must use this power.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of stahn (preterite-present verb)
| infinitive | stahn | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | preterite |
| 1st person singular | stah | stunn |
| 2nd person singular | steihst | stunnst |
| 3rd person singular | steiht | stunn |
| plural | staht | stunnen |
| imperative | present | — |
| singular | stah | |
| plural | staht | |
| participle | present | past |
| stahn | stahn | |
| Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects. | ||