jungen

See also: Jungen

German

Etymology 1

Compare Junges (“young of an animal, offspring”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjʊŋən/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: jun‧gen
  • Homophone: Jungen

Verb

jungen (weak, third-person singular present jungt, past tense jungte, past participle gejungt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive, of animals, especially pets) to give birth
    Synonym: werfen
    Meine Katze wird bald jungen. ― My cat will have offspring soon.

Further reading

  • “jungen” in Duden online
  • “jungen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Etymology 2

Adjective

jungen

  1. inflection of jung:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural
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