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öffnen

öffnen

German

Verb

öffnen (third-person singular simple present öffnet, past tense öffnete, past participle geöffnet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to open
    Das Kind öffnete die Fenster.
    The child opened the windows.

Usage notes

While öffnen isn't explicitly formal, it is fairly infrequent in everyday spoken language, typically replaced by the colloquial aufmachen

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