wahren

== German == === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German warn, waren, from Old High German warōn, ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *warōn. Related to biwarōn, from wara (“attention”). Compare German bewahren. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /vaːrən/, [ˈvaːʁən], [ˈvaː(ɐ̯)n], [ʋ-] Hyphenation: wah‧ren Homophones: waren, Waren (general), Wahn (some speakers in casual speech) ==== Verb ==== wahren (weak, third-person singular present wahrt, past tense wahrte, past participle gewahrt, auxiliary haben) to protect, to safeguard Synonyms: beschützen, bewachen, schützen, sichern, verteidigen to maintain, to preserve Synonyms: aufrechterhalten, beibehalten, behalten, bewahren, erhalten, festhalten das Gesicht wahren ― to save face ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== bewahren verwahrlosen ===== Descendants ===== → Kashubian: warac === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== wahren inflection of wahr: strong genitive masculine/neuter singular weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular strong dative plural weak/mixed all-case plural === Further reading === “wahren”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “wahren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “wahren” in Duden online “wahren” in OpenThesaurus.de