bohren

== German == === Etymology === From Old High German borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈboːrən/, [ˈboːʁən], [ˈboː.ɐn], [boːɐ̯n], [bɔɐ̯n] Homophone: Born (monosyllabic with shortened vowel) === Verb === bohren (weak, third-person singular present bohrt, past tense bohrte, past participle gebohrt, auxiliary haben) to bore, to drill to pry (keep asking) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Geböhre n === Further reading === “bohren” in Duden online “bohren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “bohren” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “bohren”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891