sühnen

German

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzyːnən]
  • Hyphenation: süh‧nen
  • (file)

Verb

sühnen (weak, third-person singular present sühnt, past tense sühnte, past participle gesühnt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (literary) to atone
    • 1943, White Rose, 6th leaflet
      Der deutsche Name bleibt für immer geschändet, wenn nicht die deutsche Jugend endlich aufsteht, rächt und sühnt zugleich, seine Peiniger zerschmettert und ein neues, geistiges Europa errichtet.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      The German name remains forever shameful if the German youth is not at last to rise up, to avenge itself and at the same time to atone; to shatter its torturers and to build a new, spiritual Europe.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • sühnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • sühnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • sühnen” in Duden online
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