abfangen

German

Etymology

ab- +‎ fangen

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔapfaŋən/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ab‧fan‧gen

Verb

abfangen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fängt ab, past tense fing ab, past participle abgefangen, auxiliary haben)

  1. to intercept
  2. to pull up
  3. to pull an aircraft out of a dive

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  • Michael Robert; Karin Doerr (2002) Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 49

Further reading
  • “abfangen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “abfangen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “abfangen” in Duden online
  • “abfangen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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