legen
Meaning
- (causative,form-of,transitive,weak) causative of liegen: to lay; to put, place, position (someone or something) such that it afterwards lies
- (reflexive,weak) to lie down
- (weak) to castrate
- (colloquial,especially,weak) to slay, to defeat
- (colloquial,impersonal,weak) to cause great amusement, to make someone collapse in laughter, to kill, to slay
Concepts
make use of
put on clothes
put onto
turn to account
pass oneself off
do something in advance
cause to take place
Synonyms
anpflanzen
kleiner werden
geringer werden
in die Waagrechte bringen
Kleider anziehen
sich verstellen lassen
hinstecken
aufeinanderlegen
daraufsetzen
darüberlegen
darübersetzen
einkopieren
hineinlegen
hineintun
hinschütten
hinstreuen
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
legge
Zürich
lege
Bern
lege
Lucerne
legge
Aargau
lege
St. Gallen
legge
Bern
legä
Zürich
legä
Zug
legge
St. Gallen
lege
Graubünden
legga
Solothurn
legge
Aargau
legge
Basel-Landschaft
leege
Basel-Stadt
lege
Zug
lege
Basel-Landschaft
legge
St. Gallen
lega
Zürich
ligge
Zürich
liege
Aargau
legä
Aargau
ligge
Appenzell Innerrhoden
lege
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
lege
Bern
lägä
Basel-Landschaft
lege
Basel-Landschaft
due
Basel-Stadt
legä
Fribourg
lege
Obwalden
leggä
Obwalden
legge
Schaffhausen
leggä
Schwyz
leggä
Solothurn
lege
Thurgau
legä
Thurgau
lege
Valais
leggu
Zürich
lige
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Hyphenated as
le‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈleːɡən/
Etymology
From Middle High German legen, from Old High German leggen, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną. Compare English lay, Danish lægge.
liegen
- (class-5,intransitive,strong) to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
- (Switzerland,class-5,intransitive,strong) to lie (to be in a horizontal position)
- (class-5,intransitive,strong) to be, to lie somewhere (of flat objects, also of inpatients in a hospital; otherwise use sitzen or stehen)
- (class-5,intransitive,strong) to be located, to lie somewhere (of countries, towns, houses, etc.)
- (class-5,intransitive,strong) to be, to stand (of indices, measurements)
gestellt
-
past participle of stellen
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