falten

falten

1. third-person plural present indicative of faltar

From Middle High German valden, valten, from Old High German faldan, faltan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan. The irregular forms with -t- arose through early levelling of Grammatischer Wechsel, but remained rare in both Old and Middle High German. They probably established themselves in modern German by analogy as there are several verbs in -alten (halten, schalten, spalten, walten), but none in -alden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaltən/

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falten (weak or mixed, third-person singular present faltet, past tense faltete, past participle gefaltet or (regional) gefalten, auxiliary haben)

1. to fold

   seine Hände falten ― to fold one's hands

   mit gefalteten Händen ― with folded hands

• The normal past participle is gefaltet. The strong form gefalten is used in some regions but is now rarely seen in writing, although it is the older form (compare the Dutch cognate vouwen with past participle gevouwen).

• Falten, Falter, Faltung
• faltend, gefaltet

• Falte
• Falter
• faltig
• -fältig

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

falten

1. inflection of faltar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative