strammstehen

== German == === Etymology === stramm +‎ stehen === Pronunciation === === Verb === strammstehen (irregular strong, third-person singular present steht stramm, past tense stand stramm, past participle strammgestanden, past subjunctive stände stramm or stünde stramm, auxiliary haben or sein) to stand at attention ==== Usage notes ==== Only the auxiliary haben is used in northern and central Germany. In southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, sein is common in the vernacular and also, alternatively, in standard usage. ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “strammstehen” in Duden online “strammstehen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)