warten

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German warten, from Old High German wartēn, from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Cognate with Old Saxon wardōn, Swedish vårda, English ward. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvartən/, [ˈvaʁ.tn̩], [ˈvaɐ̯-], [ˈvaː-], [ʋ-], [-tən] Hyphenation: war‧ten Homophone: waten (some speakers) === Verb === warten (weak, third-person singular present wartet, past tense wartete, past participle gewartet, auxiliary haben) (intransitive) to wait (for) [with auf (+ accusative)] (transitive) to maintain (chiefly a machine, e.g. a car or heating) ==== Usage notes ==== The intransitive sense of warten originally governed the genitive case (ich warte deiner instead of ich warte auf dich). Today this usage is generally archaic. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === harren === Further reading === “warten”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “warten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “warten” in Duden online “warten” in OpenThesaurus.de