German

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Etymology

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A merger of two related verbs:

  1. Middle High German staren, from Old High German starēn (to stare), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn (to be fixed, be rigid);
  2. Middle High German starren, from Old High German storrēn (to be stiff), from Proto-Germanic *starjaną (to be fixed, be rigid).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtarən/, [ˈʃta.ʁən], [-ʁn̩], [-ʁɴ̩], [ʃtaː(ɐ̯)n]
  • Hyphenation: star‧ren
  • Homophones: stahn, Staren (some speakers)

Verb

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starren (weak, third-person singular present starrt, past tense starrte, past participle gestarrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to stare, to gaze [with auf (+ accusative) ‘at someone/something’ or nach (+ dative) ‘towards someone/something’ or in (+ accusative) ‘into someone/something’]
  2. (intransitive) to be full (of), to be covered (with), to teem (with) [with vor (+ dative) or von (+ dative) ‘something’]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • starren” in Duden online
  • starren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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