wägen

See also: wagen, Wagen, and Wägen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wegen, from Old High German wegan.[1] Compare Dutch wegen, English weigh, Danish veje, Swedish väga.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɛːɡən/, /vɛːɡn̩/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
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  • IPA(key): /veːɡən/, /veːɡn̩/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
  • Hyphenation: wä‧gen

Verb

wägen (class 4 strong, third-person singular present wägt, past tense wog, past participle gewogen, past subjunctive wöge, auxiliary haben)

  1. to weigh something

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “wägen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading
  • “wägen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “wägen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “wägen” in Duden online
  • “wägen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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