wandern

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German wandern, from Old High German *wantarōn, from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvandɐn/ Hyphenation: wan‧dern === Verb === wandern (weak, third-person singular present wandert, past tense wanderte, past participle gewandert, auxiliary sein or (rare) haben) (intransitive) to hike, to go trekking (intransitive) to wander, to migrate, to move spontaneously, to end up (somewhere) ==== Usage notes ==== The auxiliary is necessarily sein when a direction is given: Wir sind zum See gewandert. (“We took a hike to the lake.”) Without a direction, both auxiliaries are possible, but sein is still vastly predominant: In diesen Bergen sind/haben wir oft gewandert. (“We used to take frequent hikes in these mountains.”) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== abwandern, auswandern, durchwandern, einwandern, umherwandern, unterwandern, zuwandern ==== Derived terms ==== Wanderer, Wanderung bewandert ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Silesian: wandrować === Further reading === “wandern”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “wandern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “wandern” in Duden online “wandern” in OpenThesaurus.de === Anagrams === warnend