stahn

German

Verb

stahn (irregular strong, third-person singular present staht, past tense stand or stund, past participle gestanden or gestahn)

1. (archaic or dialectal) alternative form of stehen
   • 1778, Simon Dach, translated by Johann Gottfried Herder, Ännchen von Tharau:

     Käm alles Wetter gleich auf, uns zu schlahn, / Wir sind gesinnt, beieinander zu stahn.

     Though all weathers should rise to strike us, / We are determined to stand by each other.

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German stân, from Old Saxon stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stān, from Proto-Germanic *stāną. Cognate with Dutch staan, German stehen, English stand, West Frisian stean, Danish stå.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɒːn/

Verb

stahn (past singular stunn, past participle stahn, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (intransitive) to stand, to be upright
2. (intransitive) to be, to be placed or located

   Op dat Plattdüütschland steiht en Huus.

   In Low Saxon Germany there is a house.

3. (intransitive, with to and another verb) Used as an alternative to wesen + an't to form a continuous aspect.

   Wat steihst du dor to doon? / Wat steihst du dor an't doon?

   What are you doing there?

4. to say, to indicate in a written form

   In de Grundwett steiht wiss wölkeen de Macht hett in en Land un woans he oder se de hiersten bruken mutt.

   In the constitution it says exactly who's in power in a country and how he or she must use this power.

Conjugation

Conjugation of stahn (preterite-present verb)

infinitive	stahn
	present	preterite
1st person singular	stah	stunn
2nd person singular	steihst	stunnst
3rd person singular	steiht	stunn
plural	staht	stunnen
	imperative
singular	stah
plural	staht
	present	past
participle	stahn	stahn

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

Synonyms

• (be): liggen, lopen, sitten, wesen

Derived terms

• afstahn
• alleenstahn
• bistahn
• dörchstahn
• opstahn
• tostahn
• vullstahn
• wedderstahn

Anagrams

• nahst