weisen

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ̯zn̩/, /ˈvaɪ̯zən/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophone: Waisen

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German wīsen, from Old High German wīsen, from Proto-West Germanic *wīsijan, from Proto-Germanic *wīsijaną.

Verb

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weisen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present weist, past tense wies, past participle gewiesen, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive, rare) to point
    auf etwas weisento point at something
  2. (transitive) to indicate; to show
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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  • Wegweiser

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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weisen

  1. inflection of weise:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Further reading

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

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German and Old High German wīsen, from Proto-West Germanic *wīsijan, from Proto-Germanic *wīsijaną. Cognate with German weisen, Dutch wijzen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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weisen (third-person singular present weist, past participle gewisen, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive) to show, to indicate
  2. (transitive) to show, to exhibit, to display
  3. (transitive) to depict
  4. (intransitive) to point
  5. (reflexive) to show up, to show one's face

Conjugation

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Regular
infinitive weisen
participle gewisen
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular weisen
2nd singular weis weis
3rd singular weist
1st plural weisen
2nd plural weist weist
3rd plural weisen
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

Derived terms

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