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babbeln

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German

Etymology

Imitative (lautmalend) of a child's first attempts to speak, ba-ba.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Verb

babbeln (weak, third-person singular present babbelt, past tense babbelte, past participle gebabbelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to blubber; blabber (talk incoherently)
  2. to babble (to talk a lot)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • babbeln” in Duden online
  • babbeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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