verlieren

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German verliesen, from Old High German firliosan, from Proto-West Germanic *fraleusan, from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leu- (“to detach”). Compare Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “loose, untie”), Latin solvō (“dissolve”), English forlorn, Dutch verliezen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [fɛɐ̯ˈliːʁən] === Verb === verlieren (class 2 strong, third-person singular present verliert, past tense verlor, past participle verloren, past subjunctive verlöre, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to lose (something, or a game) 1929, Paul Hertz, Über Axiomensysteme für beliebige Satzsysteme, in: Mathematische Annalen 101 (transitive) to shed (reflexive) to trail away, to fade away (reflexive) to get lost ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “verlieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “verlieren” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “verlieren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “verlieren” in Duden online