different between windfallen vs fallen
windfallen
English
Etymology
wind +? fallen
Adjective
windfallen (not comparable)
- Blown down by the wind.
Related terms
- windfall
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fallen
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
- past participle of fall
Adjective
fallen (not generally comparable, comparative more fallen, superlative most fallen)
- Having dropped by the force of gravity.
- fallen raindrops
- (literary) Killed in battle.
- to honor fallen soldiers
- 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 […]
- Having collapsed.
- a fallen building
- 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 […]
- 1913, John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871, page 397:
Usage notes
- Rarely, the superlative form fallenest is encountered.
Synonyms
- (having collapsed): collapsed
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
fallen (plural fallen)
- (plural only) The dead.
- (plural only) Casualties of battle or war.
- (countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.
Translations
Catalan
Verb
fallen
- 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)
- (intransitive) to fall; to drop
- 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Gespenster’:
- 1960, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, ‘Gespenster’:
- (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:
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 31:
- (intransitive) to fall, to collapse, to be overthrown.
- (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)
- (ergative) to fall, tumble
- to happen
Conjugation
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb falle
Adjective
fallen (neuter singular fallent, definite singular and plural falne)
- 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)
- fallen
Derived terms
- småfallen
References
- “fallen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Verb
fallen
- Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of fallar.
- Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of fallar.
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of fallar.
Swedish
Etymology
past participle of falla.
Adjective
fallen
- fallen
Declension
Noun
fallen
- definite plural of fall
Anagrams
- fallne
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