abfahren

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German abevarn, from Old High German abafaran, from Proto-West Germanic *abafaran. Equivalent to ab- (“from”) +‎ fahren (“drive”). Cognate with Dutch afvaren. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈapfaːrən] Hyphenation: ab‧fah‧ren === Verb === abfahren (class 6 strong, third-person singular present fährt ab, past tense fuhr ab, past participle abgefahren, past subjunctive führe ab, auxiliary haben or sein) (intransitive) to depart, to leave [auxiliary sein] (transitive) to carry off, to remove [auxiliary haben] (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) to go for; to be crazy about, for; to be a fan of or infatuated with [with auf ‘someone/something’] [auxiliary sein] (transitive) to drive along (a stretch of road in search of something); to patrol [auxiliary sein or haben] to wear down (tyres/tires) to use up (all one's journeys on a travel card) to knock off (something by hitting it with one's vehicle) (jemanden abfahren lassen, vulgar) to send someone packing; to tell someone to go away ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== abreisen auf etw. stehen ==== Derived terms ==== Abfahren, Abfahrer, Abfahrt (departure; ski-run) abfahrend, abgefahren === Further reading === “abfahren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “abfahren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “abfahren” in Duden online “abfahren” in OpenThesaurus.de