hinfahren

German

Etymology

hin- +‎ fahren

Pronunciation
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Verb

hinfahren (class 6 strong, third-person singular present fährt hin, past tense fuhr hin, past participle hingefahren, past subjunctive führe hin, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive) to give a ride [auxiliary haben] (to drive for somebody else to reach a destination)
    Hypernym: hinbringen
    Ich habe sie zur Arbeit hingefahren. ― I gave her a ride to the workplace.
  2. (intransitive) to drive [auxiliary sein] (to drive to a specified location)
    Hypernym: hingehen
    Er ist zum Krater hingefahren. ― He drove (up) to the crater.
  3. (intransitive, slightly poetic) to drive away, to drive off [auxiliary sein]
    Synonym: wegfahren
    Da fahren sie hin... kaum noch am Horizont zu sehen. ― There they drive away... barely (still) visible on the horizon.
  4. (intransitive, archaic, euphemistic) to decease [auxiliary sein]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sterben
  5. (intransitive, uncommon) to quickly wipe (away) [auxiliary sein] [+über +Acc.] (not repeatedly)
    mit der Handfläche glättend über das Tuch hinfahren ― to quickly wipe straighteningly across the piece of cloth

Conjugation

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Further reading
  • “hinfahren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “hinfahren” in Duden online
  • “hinfahren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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