different between fallen vs falled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?l?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?f?l?n/

Verb

fallen

1. past participle of fall

Adjective

fallen (not generally comparable, comparative more fallen, superlative most fallen)

1. Having dropped by the force of gravity.

   fallen raindrops

2. (literary) Killed in battle.

   to honor fallen soldiers

3. Having lost one's chastity.

   a fallen woman

   • 1991, Kelly Walsh, Nightshades and Orchids (?ISBN)

     "You make yourself out to be the fallenest of fallen women." Tilting her head toward Sharon, Debbie grinned. "Let's face it. There can't be winners without losers, and I'm a loser. But look at it this way. I make it possible for some other woman […]

4. Having collapsed.

   a fallen building

5. Having lost prestige, (Christian) grace, etc.
   • 1913, John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871, page 397:

     That fallenest of our fallen race has left town — said to be near Fontainebleau by some, in Italy by others. More consequent with himself than usual, he is fulfilling, in the only possible way left open to him, his promise […]

Usage notes

• Rarely, the superlative form fallenest is encountered.

Synonyms

• (having collapsed): collapsed

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fallen (plural fallen)

1. (plural only) The dead.
2. (plural only) Casualties of battle or war.
3. (countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.

Translations

Catalan

Verb

fallen

1. third-person plural present indicative form of fallar

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vallen, from Old High German fallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan, from Proto-Germanic *fallan?, from Proto-Indo-European *p?l-. Akin to Low German fallen, Dutch vallen, English fall, Danish falde, Dutch falla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?faln?/, /?fal?n/

Verb

fallen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present fällt, past tense fiel, past participle gefallen, auxiliary sein)

1. (intransitive) to fall; to drop
   • 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Gespenster’:

2. (intransitive, military) to die; to fall in battle; to die in battle; to be killed in action
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 31:

3. (intransitive) to fall, to collapse, to be overthrown.

4. (intransitive) to become lower, to decrease, to decline

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (die in a war): im Feld bleiben

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fallen” in Duden online
• “fallen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Low German

Alternative forms

• vallen (New Saxon Spelling)

Etymology

From Middle Low German vallen, from Old Saxon fallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan, from Proto-Germanic *fallan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fal?n?/, /?fal??n/

Verb

fallen (past singular full, past participle fullen, auxiliary verb wesen)

1. (ergative) to fall, tumble

2. to happen

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb falle

Adjective

fallen (neuter singular fallent, definite singular and plural falne)

1. fallen

Derived terms

• småfallen

References

• “fallen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb falle

Adjective

fallen (neuter singular falle, definite singular and plural falne)

1. fallen

Derived terms

• småfallen

References

• “fallen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

fallen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of fallar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of fallar.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of fallar.

Swedish

Etymology

past participle of falla.

Adjective

fallen

1. fallen

Declension

Noun

fallen

1. definite plural of fall

Anagrams

• fallne

English

Verb

falled

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of fall