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lesen

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See also: Lesen and lësen

Galician

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Verb

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lesen

  1. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of ler

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German lesen, from Old High German lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (to gather), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (to gather). Cognate with English lease (to gather) [with an obsolete meaning], cognate with Low German lesen (to read), Dutch lezen (to read).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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lesen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present liest, past tense las, past participle gelesen, past subjunctive läse, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to read (look at and understand symbols, words, or data)
  2. (transitive) to select and gather or harvest (things like grapes)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • lesen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • lesen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • lesen” in Duden online
  • lesen” in Duden online

German Low German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Cognate with Dutch Low Saxon leazn, lezen; Plautdietsch läsen; German lesen; Dutch lezen.

Verb

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lesen (past singular lees, past participle leest or gelesen, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to read
    Hest du de Daagbläder vunmorgen leest?
    Did you read the newspapers this morning?
  2. (rare, dated, transitive or intransitive) to gather up

Conjugation

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Conjugation of lesen (weak verb)
infinitive lesen
present preterite
1st person singular lees lees
2nd person singular leess(t) leess(t)
3rd person singular lees(t) lees
plural leest, leesen lesen
imperative
singular lees(e)
plural leest
present past
participle lesen (e)leest, geleest

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Conjugation of lesen (class 5 strong verb)
infinitive lesen
present preterite
1st person singular lees lees
2nd person singular liss(t) leess(t)
3rd person singular lis(t) lees
plural leest, leesen lesen
imperative
singular lees
plural leest
present past
participle lesen (e)lesen, gelesen

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Hungarian

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Etymology

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les +‎ -en

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛʃɛn]
  • Hyphenation: le‧sen

Noun

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lesen

  1. superessive singular of les

Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English licence. The loss of the final consonant -ce /s/ is either due to constraint against final consonant clusters, or being analysed as a plural ending (Malay lacked regular plurals).

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Noun

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lesen (Jawi spelling ليسين, plural lesen-lesen, informal 1st possessive lesenku, 2nd possessive lesenmu, 3rd possessive lesennya)

  1. A licence.

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch lesan, from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *les- (to gather).

Verb

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lēsen

  1. to gather, to collect
  2. to read
  3. to read out loud (to an audience)

Inflection

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Descendants

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Middle High German

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old High German lësan, from Proto-West Germanic *lesan, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną (to collect). The sense to read, found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is a semantic loan from Latin legō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈlɛs̠ən/

Verb

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lësen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present liset, past tense las, past participle gelësen, past subjunctive læse, auxiliary hān)

  1. to read, to read aloud
  2. to examine
  3. to collect

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Participle

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lesen (neuter lese, definite singular and plural lesne)

  1. past participle of lesa

Anagrams

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