langen

See also: Langen, Längen, and lången

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaŋən/
  • Rhymes: -aŋn̩

Etymology 1

From Middle High German langen, from Old High German langēn, from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną.

Verb

langen (weak, third-person singular present langt, past tense langte, past participle gelangt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial, southern) to reach for something, to grab
    Synonym: greifen
  2. (colloquial, southern) to pass, to hand something to someone
    Synonym: reichen
  3. (colloquial, southern) to suffice, to be enough
    Synonyms: ausreichen, reichen, genügen
    Mir langt's.
    I've had enough
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Swedish: langa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

langen

  1. inflection of lang:
    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

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *langon, from Proto-West Germanic *langijan.

Verb

langen

  1. to be/become long
  2. to lengthen, to make longer
  3. to touch
  4. to hand, to pass, to reach in order to give
  5. (impersonal) to long [+dative = subject]

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • langhen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “langen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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