antun

See also: Antun

German

Alternative forms

  • anthun (obsolete)

Etymology

an- + tun

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔanˌtuːn/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: an‧tun

Verb

antun (irregular, third-person singular simple present tut an, past tense tat an, past participle angetan, auxiliary haben)

  1. to do something to someone
    • 1930, Musil, Robert, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Book 1, Chapter 42: Die große Sitzung:
      Inzwischen hatte Diotima ihre bildhafte Ruhe wiedergefunden, eröffnete nach einigen Augenblicken die Sitzung und bat Se. Erlaucht, ihrem Hause die Ehre anzutun, darin den Vorsitz zu übernehmen.
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Usage notes

It often implies the casting of harm, as in general the object is often a kind of ill. “Ich habe ihm nichts angetan.” “Er wird sich etwas antun.” Though as the quoted example shows, this does not need to be so. Also, in a more recent idiomatic and rather colloquial sense deriving from this bewitchment sense used with expletive object (es) it means mere appeal, enthusement. “Das Lied hat es ihm angetan.

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