hemmen
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hemmen, from Old High German *hemmen (in Old High German gihemmen), from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Cognate with English hem, Swedish hämma, Icelandic hemja.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hemmen (weak, third-person singular present hemmt, past tense hemmte, past participle gehemmt, auxiliary haben)
- to check
- to hinder, to hamper
- Die Bürokratie hemmt viele gute Projekte. ― Bureaucracy hampers many good projects.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | hemmen | ||||
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present participle | hemmend | ||||
past participle | gehemmt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich hemme | wir hemmen | i | ich hemme | wir hemmen |
du hemmst | ihr hemmt | du hemmest | ihr hemmet | ||
er hemmt | sie hemmen | er hemme | sie hemmen | ||
preterite | ich hemmte | wir hemmten | ii | ich hemmte1 | wir hemmten1 |
du hemmtest | ihr hemmtet | du hemmtest1 | ihr hemmtet1 | ||
er hemmte | sie hemmten | er hemmte1 | sie hemmten1 | ||
imperative | hemm (du) hemme (du) |
hemmt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Polish: hamować
Further reading
[edit]- “hemmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “hemmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “hemmen” in Duden online
- “hemmen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hemmen, from Old High German *hemmen, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan.
Verb
[edit]hemmen (third-person singular present hemmt, past participle gehemmt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to hamper
Conjugation
[edit]Regular | ||
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infinitive | hemmen | |
participle | gehemmt | |
auxiliary | hunn | |
present indicative |
imperative | |
1st singular | hemmen | — |
2nd singular | hemms | hemm |
3rd singular | hemmt | — |
1st plural | hemmen | — |
2nd plural | hemmt | hemmt |
3rd plural | hemmen | — |
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. |
Northern Ohlone
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to himmen (“one”).
Determiner
[edit]hemmen
References
[edit]- María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington (1930s) Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Langauges)[1], Unpublished
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]hemmen
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