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Stellen

Stellen

See also: stellen and stëllen

German

Noun

Stellen

  1. plural of Stelle

stellen

stellen

See also: Stellen and stëllen

German

Etymology

From Old High German stellen, from Proto-Germanic *stallijaną. More at stell.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃtɛln̩], [ˈʃtɛlən]

Verb

stellen (third-person singular simple present stellt, past tense stellte, past participle gestellt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to pose (a question, a riddle)
    Kann ich dir eine Frage stellen?
    Can I pose a question to you?
  2. (transitive) to position
  3. (transitive) to put
  4. (transitive) to catch
    Die Polizei stellte den Dieb.
    The police caught the thief.
  5. (reflexive) to surrender
    Der Dieb stellte sich der Polizei.
    The thief surrendered to the police.
  6. (transitive) to set, adjust (a clock)
  7. (reflexive) to place oneself, get
  8. (reflexive, with gerund or adjective) to feign, to pretend to

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German stellen, from Proto-Germanic *stallijaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtælən/

Verb

stellen (third-person singular present stellt, past participle gestallt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive) to put, to place
  2. (transitive) to pose (a question, etc.)
  3. (transitive or reflexive) to put forward (a suggestion, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to set, to adjust (an alarm clock, a thermostat, etc.)
  5. (transitive or reflexive) to stand
  6. (reflexive) to surrender
  7. (reflexive) to behave, to comport, to act

Conjugation

Regular
infinitive stellen
participle gestallt
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular stellen
2nd singular stells stell
3rd singular stellt
1st plural stellen
2nd plural stellt stellt
3rd plural stellen
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

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