fangen

== Danish == === Noun === fangen definite singular of fange == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German vāhen, from Old High German fāhan, a strong verb with past forms fieng, gefangan, from Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. The present stem fang- is derived from the past forms. This development spread from Middle Low German vangen to Central German dialects of early modern German (compare already Old Saxon fangan alongside fāhan). The same happened in hängen (< hāhen), in which, however, the development was reinforced by the existence of two variant verbs and therefore established itself much faster than it did in fangen. (Still today foo is used in many dialects of Swiss German.) Cognate to German Low German fangen (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), Swedish få (“to get, receive”), West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Danish få (“to get, receive”), English fang (“to lay hold of”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfaŋən/, [ˈfaŋən], [ˈfaŋŋ̩] (Germany) IPA(key): /ˈfaŋɛn/ (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland) Hyphenation: fan‧gen Rhymes: -aŋn̩ === Verb === fangen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fängt, past tense fing, past participle gefangen, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to catch (grab something flying in the air) Der Torwart fängt den Ball. ― The goalkeeper catches the ball. (transitive) to catch; to capture (to take hold of a person or an animal) Die Förster fingen das entlaufene Wildschwein. ― The rangers caught the run-away boar. (reflexive) to improve in health; do well again; to do better (reflexive) to calm down; to compose oneself (colloquial, transitive, dative reflexive) to catch (a disease; something unpleasant) (colloquial, dative reflexive) to be slapped [with eine] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Fang m Fänger m === Further reading === “fangen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “fangen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “fangen” in Duden online “fangen” in OpenThesaurus.de == Norwegian Bokmål == === Noun === fangen m definite singular of fange == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === fangen m definite singular of fange == Old English == === Verb === fangen past participle of fōn