hindern

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪndɐn/
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Verb

hindern (third-person singular simple present hindert, past tense hinderte, past participle gehindert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to impede
  2. to prevent
    • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 162:
      Wäre Paula ernstlich gewillt gewesen, ihm zu folgen, nichts hätte sie hindern können, zur rechten Zeit dazusein. Aber sie hatte nicht gewollt, sie war nicht gekommen, sie hatte ihn im Stich gelassen.
      If Paula had been seriously willing to follow him, nothing could have prevented her to be there at the right time. But she had not wanted to, she had not come, she had abandoned him.

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