flammen

See also: Flammen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vlammen. Equivalent to Flamme +‎ -en.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flamən/
  • Hyphenation: flam‧men
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Verb

flammen (weak, third-person singular present flammt, past tense flammte, past participle geflammt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (now chiefly solemn or poetic) to flame (burn with a flame, also figuratively)
    Synonym: lodern
    • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 458:
      Er setzte an: da trat Buck vor, straff aufgerichtet, und seine Augen flammten wieder, wie in der tragisch verlaufenen Wahlversammlung.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Further reading
  • “flammen” in Duden online
  • “flammen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Verb

flammen

  1. Alternative form of flawmen

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

flammen m

  1. definite singular of flamme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

flammen m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of flamme
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