mahnen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German mânen, from Old High German manōn, from Proto-Germanic *manōną. Cognate with Old English manian. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈmaːnən] Homophone: Manen === Verb === mahnen (weak, third-person singular present mahnt, past tense mahnte, past participle gemahnt, auxiliary haben) to urge (someone) to do a specific, necessary task to beg fervidly to warn (someone) of (something) emphatically to remind pressingly, admonish ==== Usage notes ==== The preposition used with mahnen is an (this is the counterpart to e.g. of in the English equivalent to remind of). In older language instead of a prepositional phrase the genitive is common. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Mahnmal Mahnung Mahnverfahren Mahnwache ==== Descendants ==== Kashubian: manowac === Further reading === “mahnen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “mahnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “mahnen” in Duden online “mahnen” in OpenThesaurus.de