The German word for to fall is
fallen
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 |
Niedergang | ||
n. demise, downfall, decline, comedown | ||
n. (nautical) companionway |
Sündenfall | ||
n. (religion) the Fall (of Man) | ||
n. fall from grace |
Untergang | ||
n. fall, downfall, doom | ||
n. (nautical) sinking | ||
n. (astronomy) setting |
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