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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German rūnen, from Old High German rūnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *rūnōn, from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]raunen (weak, third-person singular present raunt, past tense raunte, past participle geraunt, auxiliary haben)
- to whisper; to say secretly (especially in an eerie way)
- 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan[1], Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 313:
- Der Bürgermeister lachte gefällig. Aber Diederich riß die Augen auf. Er näherte sich dem Ohr des Präsidenten und raunte: „Sein Testament!“
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (of a crowd) to murmur; to whisper (to speak among each other in a subdued way, especially in astonishment)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | raunen | ||||
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present participle | raunend | ||||
past participle | geraunt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich raune | wir raunen | i | ich raune | wir raunen |
du raunst | ihr raunt | du raunest | ihr raunet | ||
er raunt | sie raunen | er raune | sie raunen | ||
preterite | ich raunte | wir raunten | ii | ich raunte1 | wir raunten1 |
du rauntest | ihr rauntet | du rauntest1 | ihr rauntet1 | ||
er raunte | sie raunten | er raunte1 | sie raunten1 | ||
imperative | raun (du) raune (du) |
raunt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “raunen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “raunen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “raunen” in Duden online
- “raunen” in OpenThesaurus.de
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]raunen m
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