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Mahnen

Mahnen

See also: mahnen and Mähnen

German Low German

Noun

Mahnen

  1. plural of Mahn

mahnen

mahnen

See also: Mahnen and Mähnen

German

Verb

mahnen (third-person singular simple present mahnt, past tense mahnte, past participle gemahnt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to urge (someone) to do a specific, necessary task
  2. to beg fervidly
  3. to warn (someone) of (something) emphatically
  4. to remind pressingly, admonish

Usage notes

The preposition used with mahnen is an (this is the counterpart to e.g. of in the English equivalent to remind of).

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