trennen

From Middle High German trennen, from Old High German trennen, from Proto-West Germanic *trannijan, from Proto-Germanic *trannijaną. Cognate with German Low German trennen, Dutch tornen (archaic tarnen, from Middle Dutch ternen, metathesis of older trennen).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁɛnən/, [ˈtʁɛnː] (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtʁɛnɛn] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: tren‧nen
• Rhymes: -ɛnən

trennen (weak, third-person singular present trennt, past tense trennte, past participle getrennt, auxiliary haben)

1. to separate, sever, part, disunite, uncouple, segregate, unjoin, disjoin
2. to sunder
3. to unlink, delink, disconnect, detach
4. to isolate
5. (reflexive) to separate, to go apart, to secede, to break off, to break up; to part ways [with reflexive ‘someone’ and von (+ dative) ‘someone’]

• “trennen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “trennen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “trennen” in Duden online
• “trennen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “trennen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Middle High German trennen, from Proto-Germanic *trannijaną. Cognate with German trennen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʀænən/
• Rhymes: -ænən

trennen (third-person singular present trennt, past participle getrennt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to separate

• (to separate): separéieren

• oftrennen