strafen

See also: Strafen

German

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), most likely from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną (see Strafe (“punishment”)). Cognate with Luxembourgish strofen, Dutch straffen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʃtʁaːfɱ̩], [ˈʃtʁaːfən]
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Verb

strafen (weak, third-person singular present straft, past tense strafte, past participle gestraft, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to punish
    Synonym: bestrafen
    • 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
      Das Gefängnis, das heute in Deutschland nicht mehr strafen sondern bessern und erziehen soll, ist damit sozusagen zum Lazarett der bürgerlichen Ordnung avanciert.
      The prison, which today in Germany is not supposed to punish anymore but to better and educate them, has thereby advanced to the military hospital of the bourgeois order, so to speak.

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: strafe
  • → Polish: strofować

Further reading
  • “strafen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “strafen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “strafen” in Duden online
  • “strafen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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