abfangen

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German

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Etymology

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ab- +‎ fangen

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʔapfaŋən/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ab‧fan‧gen

Verb

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abfangen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fängt ab, past tense fing ab, past participle abgefangen, auxiliary haben)

  1. to intercept
  2. to pull up
  3. to pull an aircraft out of a dive

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Michael Robert, Karin Doerr (2002) Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 49

Further reading

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  • abfangen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • abfangen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • abfangen” in Duden online
  • abfangen” in OpenThesaurus.de