klären

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German klæren; from klar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈklɛːʁən/, [ˈkʰlɛːɐ̯n] (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland) IPA(key): /ˈkleːʁən/, [ˈkʰleːɐ̯n] (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions) Hyphenation: klä‧ren === Verb === klären (weak, third-person singular present klärt, past tense klärte, past participle geklärt, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to clarify, to clear up (an issue or misunderstanding), to fill in unknown details, to resolve, to sort out (a problem or a question) (transitive) to clarify, to remove (visible contaminants) (sports, soccer) to clear (kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending) (reflexive) to become clear (youth slang) to make available, to ready (colloquial, somewhat vulgar) to seduce, to wrap around one's little finger as a sex object, to rizz Synonyms: klarmachen, um den Finger wickeln ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “klären”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “klären” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “klären” in Duden online “klären” in OpenThesaurus.de