hauen
Basque
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- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯en/ [hau̯.ẽn]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯en/ [au̯.ẽn]
- Rhymes: -au̯en
- Hyphenation: hau‧en
Determiner
hauen
Pronoun
hauen
Catalan
Verb
hauen
Finnish
Noun
hauen
German
Etymology
From Middle High German houwen, Old High German houwan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. Cognate with English hew.
Pronunciation
Verb
hauen (weak or class 7 strong, third-person singular present haut, past tense haute or hieb, past participle gehauen or (only in some regional vernaculars) gehaut, auxiliary haben)
- (literary) to thrust, slash (with a weapon)
- Er hieb nach meinem Helm. ― He thrust for my helmet.
- (transitive) to cut, hew
- Der Einbrecher haut ein Loch in die Wand. ― The burglar cuts a hole in the wall.
- (colloquial) to hit, beat, bang, whack
- Meine Mutter hat ihn gehauen. ― My mother hit him.
- Sie haute die Nägel in die Wand. ― She banged the nails into the wall
- (reflexive, colloquial) to fling oneself
- Ich werde mich in die Falle hauen. ― I'm going to hit the sack
- (regional) to chop, chop down
Usage notes
The strong preterite form hieb is only common in the literary sense of to thrust, and also in the set phrase in die gleiche Kerbe hauen, otherwise it's rare and/or stilted, with haute being used instead. However, the main past participle is still gehauen outside of some regional vernaculars.
Conjugation
infinitive | hauen | ||||
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present participle | hauend | ||||
past participle | gehauen gehaut1 | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich haue | wir hauen | i | ich haue | wir hauen |
du haust | ihr haut | du hauest | ihr hauet | ||
er haut | sie hauen | er haue | sie hauen | ||
preterite | ich haute ich hieb |
wir hauten wir hieben |
ii | ich haute2 ich hiebe2 |
wir hauten2 wir hieben2 |
du hautest du hiebst |
ihr hautet ihr hiebt |
du hautest2 du hiebest2 du hiebst2 |
ihr hautet2 ihr hiebet2 ihr hiebt2 | ||
er haute er hieb |
sie hauten sie hieben |
er haute2 er hiebe2 |
sie hauten2 sie hieben2 | ||
imperative | hau (du) haue (du) |
haut (ihr) |
1Only in some regional vernaculars.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
1Only in some regional vernaculars.
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Further reading
- “hauen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “hauen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “hauen” in Duden online
- “hauen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Noun
hauen m
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