A2

legen

Meaning

  1. causative of liegen, to lay, to put, to place, to position, so that it afterwards lies as opposed to being gesetzt, gestellt
  2. to castrate
  3. (colloquial) to slay, to defeat
  4. (colloquial) to cause great amusement, to make someone collapse in laughter, to kill, to slay

Hyphenated as
le‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈleːɡən/
Cognate with English
English
lay

liegen

  1. to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
  2. to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
  3. to be, to lie somewhere (of flat objects, also of inpatients in a hospital; otherwise use sitzen or stehen)
  4. to be located, to lie somewhere (of countries, towns, houses, etc.)
  5. to be, to stand (of indices, measurements)

gestellt

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