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From Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
lachen
- to laugh
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
From Middle Dutch lachen, from Old Dutch *lahhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
lachen
- (intransitive) to laugh
| Conjugation of lachen (weak with strong past participle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | lachen | |
| past singular | lachte | |
| past participle | gelachen | |
| infinitive | lachen | |
| gerund | lachen n | |
| present tense | past tense | |
| 1st person singular | lach | lachte |
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | lacht, lach2 | lachte |
| 2nd person sing. (u) | lacht | lachte |
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | lacht | lachte |
| 3rd person singular | lacht | lachte |
| plural | lachen | lachten |
| subjunctive sing.1 | lache | lachte |
| subjunctive plur.1 | lachen | lachten |
| imperative sing. | lach | |
| imperative plur.1 | lacht | |
| participles | lachend | gelachen |
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. |
lachen
From Middle High German lachen, from Old High German lahhen, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
lachen (weak, third-person singular present lacht, past tense lachte, past participle gelacht, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to laugh
über einen Witz lachen
to laugh at a joke - (poetic) to smile [_with_ dative ‘upon someone’]
Das Glück hat ihr gelacht
Fortune had smiled upon her
Composed forms of lachen (weak, auxiliary haben)
- ablachen, anlachen, auslachen
- sich gesundlachen
- sich kranklachen
- schief lachen, schieflachen
- sich schlapplachen
- sich totlachen
- sich weglachen
- Lachen, Lacher, Lache, Gelächter
- lachhaft
- verlachen, lächeln, lächerlich
- Lachnummer, Lachsack, Lachsalve, Lachyoga
- da lachen ja die Hühner, Bargeld lacht
- Weltlachtag
- “lachen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “lachen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “lachen” in Duden online
lachen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
From Middle Low German lachen, from Old Saxon hlahhian, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
lachen (past singular lach, past participle lacht, auxiliary verb hebben)
- to laugh
From Old Dutch *lahhan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlahhjan, from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.
lachen
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
- Dutch: lachen
- Limburgish: lache
- “lachen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lachen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I