gebären

From Middle High German gebern, from Old High German giberan, from Proto-West Germanic *gaberan, from Proto-Germanic *gaberaną. Cognate with English bear.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbɛːʁən/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈbeːʁən/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)

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• Hyphenation: ge‧bä‧ren

gebären (class 4 strong, third-person singular present gebiert or gebärt, past tense gebar, past participle geboren, past subjunctive gebäre, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to give birth; referring to labour, or to labour and pregnancy as a whole
2. (transitive) to give birth to; to bear

• The 2nd and 3rd person singular forms of the present are traditionally du gebierst, sie gebiert. The regularised forms du gebärst, sie gebärt are equally common in practice.

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• entbinden (referring to labour exclusively)

• gebärfreudig
• Gebärmutter
• Gebärer
  • Gebärerin

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