hemmen

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German

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɛmən/
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Verb

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hemmen (weak, third-person singular present hemmt, past tense hemmte, past participle gehemmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to check
  2. to hinder, to hamper
    Die Bürokratie hemmt viele gute Projekte.Bureaucracy hampers many good projects.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Polish: hamować

Further reading

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

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German hemmen, from Old High German *hemmen, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan.

Verb

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hemmen (third-person singular present hemmt, past participle gehemmt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to hamper

Conjugation

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Regular
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

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Etymology

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Related to himmen (one).

Determiner

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hemmen

  1. all, each, in total

References

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  • 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and John Peabody Harrington (1930s) Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Langauges)‎[1], Unpublished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

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Noun

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hemmen

  1. definite plural of hem