stürzen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stürzen, from Old High German sturzen, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan. See also the doublet starten, descended from the same source. Compare English start. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtyʁtsən/, [ˈʃtʏɐtsn̩] Hyphenation: stür‧zen === Verb === stürzen (weak, third-person singular present stürzt, past tense stürzte, past participle gestürzt, auxiliary haben or sein) (intransitive) to fall down, to drop, to tumble [auxiliary sein] (intransitive) to dash, to rush, to sprint to something [auxiliary sein] (intransitive) to drop off steeply [auxiliary sein] (transitive) to throw, to hurl [auxiliary haben] (transitive) to upturn [auxiliary haben] (transitive) to overthrow, to oust, to dethrone [auxiliary haben] (reflexive, colloquial) to plunge, to dive, to throw oneself [with auf (+ accusative) ‘into something’] [auxiliary haben] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== bestürzen Sturz === Further reading === “stürzen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “stürzen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “stürzen” in Duden online “stürzen” in OpenThesaurus.de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “stürzen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891