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German

Etymology

A merger of Old High German brennan (from Proto-Germanic *brannijan?), and Old High German brinnan (from Proto-Germanic *brinnan?). Cognate with Dutch branden, Swedish brinna, Old English birnan, and therefore English burn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??n?n/

Verb

brennen (irregular weak, third-person singular present brennt, past tense brannte, past participle gebrannt, past subjunctive brennte, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to burn; to light on fire

2. (intransitive) to burn; to be on fire

3. (intransitive) to have a strong affection for; to be affectionate

4. (intransitive) to be lit, to be on (of a light or lamp)

5. (intransitive) to irritate; to induce pain or another pianful sensation; to bite; to sting

6. (intransitive) to smart; to sting (a sore or wound)
7. (transitive) to fire; to bake; to kiln (tiles and pottery)

8. (transitive) to distil (alcoholic beverages such as schnapps)
9. (transitive, computing) to burn; to archive data on a storage medium. (such as CDs, DVDs, etc.)

10. (intransitive, figuratively) to emit heat

11. to roast
12. to bream (clean a ship etc. by fire and scraping)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abbrennen
• anbrennen
• brennbar
• brennend
• Brenner m
• Brennpunkt m
• niederbrennen
• verbrennen

Related terms

• Brand m
• Branntwein m
• brinnen

Further reading

• “brennen” in Duden online
• “brennen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “brennen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German brinnen, from Old High German brinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ænen/, [?b?æn?n]
  • Rhymes: -æn?n

Verb

brennen (third-person singular present brennt, past participle gebrannt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to burn, to set alight
2. (intransitive) to burn, to be on fire
3. (intransitive) to smart, to sting
4. (transitive) to distil (spirits)
5. (transitive) to brand (an animal)
6. (transitive, computing) to burn (a disk)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abrennen
• ausbrennen
• ubrennen
• verbrennen

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *brannijan

Verb

brennen

1. to burn

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: bernen, barnen
  • Dutch: barnen
  • Limburgish: borre, brenje

Further reading

• “brennen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *brannijan, whence also Old English bærnan and Old Saxon brinnan.

Verb

brennen

1. to burn

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle High German: brennen
  • German: brennen
  • Luxembourgish: brennen
  • Yiddish: ??????? (brenen)