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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German brechen, from Old High German brehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.
Akin to Old Saxon brekan, Dutch breken (“to break”), English break.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]brechen (class 4 strong, third-person singular present bricht, past tense brach, past participle gebrochen, past subjunctive bräche, auxiliary haben or sein)
- (transitive) to break [auxiliary haben]
- (transitive, physics) to refract [auxiliary haben]
- (transitive or intransitive) to vomit [auxiliary haben]
- (transitive) to fold [auxiliary haben]
- (intransitive) to become broken; to break; to fracture [auxiliary sein]
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | brechen | ||||
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present participle | brechend | ||||
past participle | gebrochen | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich breche | wir brechen | i | ich breche | wir brechen |
du brichst | ihr brecht | du brechest | ihr brechet | ||
er bricht | sie brechen | er breche | sie brechen | ||
preterite | ich brach | wir brachen | ii | ich bräche1 | wir brächen1 |
du brachst | ihr bracht | du brächest1 du brächst1 |
ihr brächet1 ihr brächt1 | ||
er brach | sie brachen | er bräche1 | sie brächen1 | ||
imperative | brich (du) | brecht (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]- Brechen, Brecher, Brechung
- brechend, gebrochen
- erbrechen, gebrechen, unterbrechen, verbrechen, zerbrechen
- Brechstange
- Gebreche n
Related terms
[edit]- abbrechen
- anbrechen
- aufbrechen
- ausbrechen
- bahnbrechend
- Brache
- Brechbohnen
- Brechdurchfall
- Breche
- Brecheisen
- Brechmittel
- Brechnuss
- Brechreiz
- Brechstange
- Brechung
- Brechzahl
- Bresche
- Brocken
- Bruch
- durchbrechen
- ehebrechen
- einbrechen
- entzweibrechen
- herausbrechen
- hereinbrechen
- herniederbrechen
- herunterbrechen
- hochbrechen
- losbrechen
- niederbrechen
- Pracht
- prägen
- umbrechen
- wegbrechen
- Wellenbrecher
- zusammenbrechen
Further reading
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- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- German terms inherited from Middle High German
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- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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