grausen

See also: Grausen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German grūsen, from Old High German (ir)grū(wi)sōn, from the root of grauen (dread, horror).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zn̩], [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zən] (Germany)
  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʁaɔ̯sn̩], [ˈɡʁaɔ̯sɛn] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
  • Hyphenation: grau‧sen

Verb

grausen (weak, third-person singular present graust, past tense grauste, past participle gegraust, auxiliary haben)

  1. (impersonal or dative reflexive or reflexive) to cause to feel dread [with accusative or dative ‘someone’, along with vor (+ dative) ‘of something’] (idiomatically translated by English dread with the dative or accusative object as the subject)
    Mir/Mich graust es vor Spinnen.I dread spiders.
    Mir graust vor Spinnen.I dread spiders.
    Ich grause mich vor Spinnen.I dread spiders.

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