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See also: Antun
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
antun (irregular, third-person singular present tut an, past tense tat an, past participle angetan, past subjunctive täte an, auxiliary haben)
- to do something to someone
- 1930–1943, Robert Musil, “Die große Sitzung”, in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften [The Man Without Qualities], book 1, Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, published 1957:
- Inzwischen hatte Diotima ihre bildhafte Ruhe wiedergefunden, eröffnete nach einigen Augenblicken die Sitzung und bat Se. Erlaucht, ihrem Hause die Ehre anzutun, darin den Vorsitz zu übernehmen.
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Usage notes
It often implies the doing of harm, as the object is often a kind of ill. “Ich habe ihm nichts angetan.” “Er wird sich etwas antun.” Also, in a more recent idiomatic and rather colloquial sense deriving from this bewitchment sense used with expletive object (es) it means mere appeal. “Das Lied hat es ihm angetan.” This usage is not only recent. In his poem “Der Rattenfänger” from around 1790, Goethe says of the ratcatcher:
In keinem Städtchen langt er an, Wo er’s nicht mancher angetan.
That is, "in no town does he arrive where he has not captivated many [a maiden]."
Conjugation
1This form and alternative in würde both found.
Derived terms
- Antuer, Antuung
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