German

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Etymology

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ab-lehnen

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈapleːnən/
  • Hyphenation: ab‧leh‧nen
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Verb

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ablehnen (weak, third-person singular present lehnt ab, past tense lehnte ab, past participle abgelehnt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to decline, refuse, reject, turn down
    Antonym: annehmen
    Das Angebot wurde abgelehnt.
    The offer was turned down.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • ablehnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • ablehnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • ablehnen” in Duden online
  • ablehnen” in OpenThesaurus.de