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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
adden (weak, third-person singular present addet, past tense addete, past participle geaddet, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial, social media, transitive) to add, follow [from 2000s]
- Synonym: hinzufügen
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
- “adden” in Duden online
- “adden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “adden”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).
Verb
adden (third-person singular simple present addeth, present participle addende, addynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle added)
- (transitive) to join or unite (something with something else); to add
- (transitive) to append (e.g. a statement); to say further information; to add on
- (transitive) to sum; to add (numbers)
Conjugation
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
References
- “adden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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