vergattern

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈɡatɐn/, /fɐ-/ === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German vergatern (“to assemble”), a chiefly Central German word alongside Middle Low German gāderen. Cognate to Dutch vergaderen, English forgather. In a military context the word originally meant “to line up troops and issue the orders”. It may later have been associated with Gatter (“grating, fence”), thus “to give someone a boundary that must not be transgressed”. Compare etymology 2 below. ==== Verb ==== vergattern (weak, third-person singular present vergattert, past tense vergatterte, past participle vergattert, auxiliary haben) (military, transitive) to officially commit a soldier to sentry duty and to the respective regulations (colloquial, transitive) to impose a duty or punishment on someone [with zu] ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== Vergattern Vergatterung === Etymology 2 === From Middle High German vergetern, derived from gater (“grating, fence”), whence modern Gatter (“idem”). The modern verb form without umlaut was derived through adaptation to the noun. ==== Verb ==== vergattern (weak, third-person singular present vergattert, past tense vergatterte, past participle vergattert, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to barricade; to separate with a grating or fence ===== Conjugation =====