feststellen

German

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛstˌʃtɛlən/, [ˈfɛstˌʃtɛln]

Verb

feststellen (weak, third-person singular present stellt fest, past tense stellte fest, past participle festgestellt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to determine, to ascertain, to establish, to find, to see
    Ich werde nun feststellen, wie gut das Gerät funktioniert.
    I will now determine how well the device works.
  2. (transitive) to notice, to realize, to observe
    Wir haben festgestellt, dass der Mann gelogen hat.
    We realized that the man lied.
  3. (transitive) to declare, to state
  4. (transitive, mechanics) to lock, to secure, to fix into place

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From fest + stellen, after German feststellen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfæstˌʃtælen/, [ˈfæs(t)ˌʃtælən]

Verb

feststellen (third-person singular present stellt fest, past participle festgestallt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive) to establish, to determine
  2. (transitive) to identify, to notice
  3. (transitive) to diagnose

Conjugation

Regular, separable
infinitive feststellen
participle festgestallt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular stellen fest
2nd singular stells fest stell fest
3rd singular stellt fest
1st plural stellen fest
2nd plural stellt fest stellt fest
3rd plural stellen fest
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.