ähneln

== German == === Etymology === 17th century, alteration of earlier ähnlichen, from Middle High German anelīchen, which is equivalent to ähnlich (“similar”) +‎ -en. The contemporary form is possibly based on the association of ähnlich with the etymologically unrelated Ahn (“ancestor”), thus derived as Ahn +‎ -eln; compare French s'apparenter à. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛːnəln/, [ˈʔɛː.nl̩n], [ˈʔeː-], [-nəln] Hyphenation: äh‧neln === Verb === ähneln (weak, third-person singular present ähnelt, past tense ähnelte, past participle geähnelt, auxiliary haben) [with dative] to resemble, be or look similar to Synonyms: (character) ähnlich sein, (looks) ähnlich sehen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “ähneln”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “ähneln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “ähneln” in Duden online “ähneln” in OpenThesaurus.de