nähren

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German nerren, from Old High German nerien, from Proto-West Germanic *naʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *nazjaną. Cognate with Middle Dutch neren ("to feed", "to provide for oneself"; obsolete Dutch generen). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnɛːrən/, [ˈnɛː.ʁən], [ˈneː-], [-ɐn] Hyphenation: näh‧ren Homophone: nähern (chiefly casual speech) === Verb === nähren (weak, third-person singular present nährt, past tense nährte, past participle genährt, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to feed (reflexive) to feed on ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ernähren eine Schlange am Busen nähren nahrhaft Nahrung === Further reading === “nähren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “nähren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “nähren” in Duden online “nähren” in OpenThesaurus.de