Polyglot Dictionary

harren

/ˈhaʁən/

verb C1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain Medical Tone Neutral

Forms

present
harrt
past
harrte
perfect
hat geharrt

Meaning

  1. to await, to wait patiently (literary)

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Intransitive

Similar words

abwarten

Harren is a literary word for waiting patiently, almost reverently; abwarten is the everyday word for "to wait and see."

Similar in other languages

English

wait

wait is the English word for the same thing — both mean "to await, to wait."

Spanish

esperar

esperar is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "to wait, to await."

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