lesen
third-person plural imperfect subjunctive ofler FromMiddle High German lësen , fromOld High German lësan , fromProto-West Germanic *lesan , fromProto-Germanic *lesaną ( “ to gather ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *les- ( “ to gather ” ) .
Cognate withEnglish lease ( “ to gather ” ) [with an obsolete meaning], cognate withLow German lesen ( “ to read ” ) ,Dutch lezen ( “ to read ” ) ,Afrikaans lees ( “ to read ” ) .
lesen (class 5strong ,third-person singular present liest ,past tense las ,past participle gelesen ,past subjunctive läse ,auxiliary haben )
( transitive or intransitive ) toread (look at andunderstand symbols ,words , ordata )( transitive ) toselect andgather orharvest (things likegrapes )1 Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative inwürde normally preferred.
“lesen ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “lesen ” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon “lesen ” inDuden online “lesen ” inDuden online FromMiddle Low German lēsen , fromOld Saxon lesan .
Cognate withDutch Low Saxon leazn ,lezen ;Plautdietsch läsen ;German lesen ;Dutch lezen .
lesen (past singular lees ,past participle leest or gelesen ,auxiliary verb hebben )
( transitive or intransitive ) toread Hest du de Daagbläder vunmorgenleest ? Did you read the newspapers this morning? ( rare , dated , transitive or intransitive ) togather upNote: This conjugation is one of many. Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.
Note: This conjugation is one of many. Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.
les +-en
IPA (key ) : [ˈlɛʃɛn] Hyphenation:le‧sen lesen
superessive singular ofles Borrowed fromEnglish licence . The loss of the final consonant-ce /s/ is either due to constraint against final consonant clusters, or being analysed as a plural ending (Malay lacked regular plurals).
lesen (Jawi spelling ليسين ,plural lesen -lesen )
Alicence . FromOld Dutch lesan , fromProto-West Germanic *lesan , fromProto-Germanic *lesaną , fromProto-Indo-European *les- ( “ to gather ” ) .
lēsen
togather , tocollect toread toread out loud (to an audience) This verb needs aninflection-table template .
Inherited fromOld High German lësan , fromProto-West Germanic *lesan , fromProto-Germanic *lesaną ( “ to collect ” ) . The sense“ to read ” , found throughout North and West Germanic except English, is asemantic loan fromLatin legō .
IPA (key ) : ( before 13th CE ) /ˈlɛs̠ən/ lësen (class 5strong ,third-person singular present liset ,past tense las ,past participle gelësen ,past subjunctive lære ,auxiliary hān )
toread , toread aloud toexamine tocollect Conjugation of
lësen (class 5
strong , auxiliary
hān )
Composed forms of
lësen (class 5
strong , auxiliary
hān )
lesen (neuter lese ,definite singular and plural lesne )
past participle oflesa