vorstellen

German

Etymology

vor- + stellen

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfoːɐ̯ʃtɛln̩], [ˈfoːɐ̯ʃtɛlən]
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Verb

vorstellen (weak, third-person singular present stellt vor, past tense stellte vor, past participle vorgestellt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to introduce (someone), to present
  2. (reflexive) to introduce oneself
  3. (transitive, with dative reflexive pronoun) to imagine
    Synonyms: imaginieren, einbilden
    Ich kann's mir nicht vorstellen!I can't imagine this!
    Ehrlich gesagt, habe ich es mir schlimmer vorgestellt.
    Honestly, I imagined it would be worse.
    als du dir vorstellen kannst.(more) than you can imagine.
    • 2017, Simone Meier, Fleisch, Kein & Aber, published 2018, page 41:
      Er war noch nie im Irrenhaus gewesen, er kannte keine Leute dort, aber er stellte sich hinter der schlossähnlichen Fassade eine Reihe von Gummizellen mit tobsüchtigen Patienten drin vor […].
      So far he had never been to the asylum and didn't know anyone there, but behind the palatial façade he imagined a row of padded cells with raving mad patients in them.
  4. (transitive) to represent; to mean
  5. (transitive) to move (something) forward
  6. (transitive) to put (the clocks) forward

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