morden

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Dutch

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Verb

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morden

  1. inflection of morren:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

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Galician

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morden

  1. third-person plural present indicative of morder

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German morden, mörden, mürden, from Old High German morden, murden, from Proto-West Germanic *murþijan, from Proto-Germanic *murþijaną. The form was continuously readapted to the noun. Equivalent to Mord +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔrdən/, [ˈmɔʁ.dn̩], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-dən]
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Verb

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morden (weak, third-person singular present mordet, past tense mordete, past participle gemordet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to commit murder
  2. (transitive, now rare) to murder
    Synonym: ermorden
    • 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein trilogy)‎[2], 5. Aufzug, 4. Auftritt; republished as S. T. Coleridge, transl., The Death of Wallenstein, 1800:
      Er schläft! O mordet nicht den heil'gen Schlaf!
      He sleeps! Oh, murder not the holy sleep!

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Further reading

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

Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmoːrːten/

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mōrden

  1. first-person singular past indicative of moardit

Swedish

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Noun

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morden

  1. definite plural of mord

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