widmen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German widemen, from Old High German widimen (“gift, give as a gift”), from widimo (“gift”), from Proto-West Germanic *wetmō (“dowry”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪtmən/
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Verb

widmen (weak, third-person singular present widmet, past tense widmete, past participle gewidmet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to dedicate, to devote
  2. (reflexive, +dative) to attend to

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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