ringen
See also: Ringen
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɪŋə(n)/
(Limburg)Audio (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋən
- Hyphenation: rin‧gen
Descendants
- Negerhollands: ring
German
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German ringan, from Proto-West Germanic *wringan, from Proto-Germanic *wringaną. Cognate with wringen (from Low German), English wring, and Dutch wringen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʁɪŋən/, [ˈʁɪŋən], [ˈʁɪŋŋ̩]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩
Verb
ringen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present ringt, past tense rang, past participle gerungen, past subjunctive ränge, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to wrestle
- (intransitive) to struggle
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, “Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter”, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 100:
- Es war als rängen beständig zwei Mächte um sie, als würde sie wehrlos von ihnen hin und her gerissen.
- It was as if two powers struggled over her continuously, as if she was torn to and fro by them defenselessly.
- (transitive) to wring (for example “hands”; but not “clothes”, for that see wringen)
Conjugation
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Swedish
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