sterben

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stërben, from Old High German stërban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną, itself either from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose force; lose sensibility, become numb; be dead, be motionless”) or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to be stiff, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch sterven, Low German starven, stiärven, sterven, staarven, West Frisian stjerre, English starve. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtɛrbən/, [ˈʃtɛʁ.bm̩], [ˈʃtɛɐ̯-], [-bən] Rhymes: -ɛʁbn̩ Hyphenation: ster‧ben === Verb === sterben (class 3 strong, third-person singular present stirbt, past tense starb, past participle gestorben, past subjunctive stürbe, auxiliary sein) (intransitive) to die Mein Hund ist gestorben. ― My dog has died. (transitive or intransitive) to die [with accusative or genitive ‘a (particular kind of) death’] Das Opfer ist einen schrecklichen Tod gestorben. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== absterben, aussterben, versterben ==== See also ==== Tod m tot (adjective) === Further reading === “sterben”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “sterben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “sterben” in Duden online “sterben” in OpenThesaurus.de sterben on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de