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The German word for to fall is
fallen





to fall

German Definition


fall
     Verb:
     [1] fallen
          [1] Suddenly he fell on the ground.
            Plötzlich fiel er auf den Boden.
          [1] "The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands."
     Substantiv:
     [1] vor allem (US-amerikanisch) Herbst
     [2] nur Plural: Wasserfall



Translations for fall and their definitions

Fallen ©
     n. plural of Falle
     n. plural of Fall
     n. gerund of fallen
     v. to fall; to drop
          Der Regen fiel wie aus Eimern. - It rained cats and dogs. (literally: 'The rain fell as if out of buckets.')
          Sie fiel zu Boden. - She fell to the floor.
     v. to die; to fall in battle; to die in battle; to be killed in action
     v. to fall, to collapse, to be overthrown.
          Das Römische Reich fiel auf Grund der Völkerwanderung. - The Roman Empire was overthrown by the consequences of the Migration period.
     v. to become lower, to decrease, to decline
          Zur Zeit der Finanzkrise fielen viele Aktienkurse um zahlreiche Prozentpunkte. - During the banking scandal many stock prices decreased by a large percentage.


Fall
     n. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
          freier Fall - free fall
     n. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
          der Fall von Konstantinopel - the fall of Constantinople
     n. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
     n. case (actual event, situation, or fact)
          Im Falle eines Falles. - in case of an emergency.
     n. case (instance or event as a topic of study)
     n. case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)
     n.          (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
     n. (grammar) case (kind of inflection of a nominal)
     n. (nautical) halyard
     v. singular imperative of fallen
     v. colloquial of


Sündenfall
     n. (religion) the Fall (of Man)
     n. fall from grace


Niedergang
     n. demise, downfall, decline, comedown
     n. (nautical) companionway


Untergang
     n. fall, downfall, doom
     n. (nautical) sinking
     n. (astronomy) setting


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