stürzen

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German sturzen, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan. See also the doublet starten, descended from the same source. Compare English start.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtyʁtsən/, [ˈʃtʏɐtsn̩]
• Hyphenation: stür‧zen

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stürzen (weak, third-person singular present stürzt, past tense stürzte, past participle gestürzt, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) to fall down, to drop, to tumble
2. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) to dash, to rush, to sprint to something
3. (intransitive, auxiliary sein) to drop off steeply
4. (transitive, auxiliary haben) to throw, to hurl
5. (transitive, auxiliary haben) to upturn
6. (transitive, auxiliary haben) to overthrow, to oust, to dethrone
7. (reflexive, auxiliary haben, with auf (into) + accusative, colloquial) to plunge, to dive, to throw oneself

   Ich bin hungrig. Stürzen wir uns auf das Essen.

   I'm hungry. Let's dive into the food.

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• bestürzen
• Sturz

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