hereinlegen

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

herein- +‎ legen

Pronunciation
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Verb

hereinlegen (weak, third-person singular present legt herein, past tense legte herein, past participle hereingelegt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, literal) to lay down inside; to put [+ in (into)]
  2. (transitive, colloquial) to trick; to pull someone's leg

Usage notes
  • Traditionally, verb pairs starting with hin / her are semantically distinguished by the respective direction away from (hineinlegen) or towards (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)) the speaker. Depending on the verb, this distinction is sometimes lost in colloquial speech, possibly owing to the fact that both forms simplify to the same colloquial short form (reinlegen).

Conjugation

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Further reading
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