trauen

trauen

1. third-person plural present indicative of traure
2. third-person plural present indicative of treure

From Middle High German trūwen, from Old High German trūwēn, from Proto-West Germanic *trūwēn, from Proto-Germanic *trūwāną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁaʊ̯ən/

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trauen (weak, third-person singular present traut, past tense traute, past participle getraut, auxiliary haben)

1. to trust
2. (transitive) to marry
3. (reflexive, with zu + infinitive) to dare (to do something)
4. (reflexive) to venture (go to a dangerous location)

• Trauen, Trauer, Trauung
• trauend, getraut
• betrauen, vertrauen

• trau, schau, wem
• zutrauen
• anvertrauen

• “trauen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “trauen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “trauen” in Duden online
• “trauen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “trauen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle High German trūwen, from Old High German trūwēn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʀau̯en/, [ˈtʀɑʊ̯ən]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊən

trauen (third-person singular present traut, past participle getraut, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to trust
2. (reflexive) to dare

• vertrauen (“to trust, to have confidence in”)
• zoutrauen (“to think capable of, to give credit for”)

• trei (“loyal, faithful”)
• Trei (“loyalty, fidelity”)