warten - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle High German warten, from Old High German wartēn, from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardāną. Cognate with Old Saxon wardōn, Swedish vårda, English ward.
- IPA(key): /ˈvartən/, [ˈvaʁ.tn̩], [ˈvaɐ̯-], [ˈvaː-], [ʋ-], [-tən]
- Hyphenation: war‧ten
- Homophone: waten (some speakers)
warten (weak, third-person singular present wartet, past tense wartete, past participle gewartet, auxiliary haben)
- (intransitive) to wait (for) [with auf (+ accusative)]
- (transitive) to maintain (chiefly a machine, e.g. a car or heating)
- The intransitive sense of warten originally governed the genitive case (ich warte deiner instead of ich warte auf dich). Today this usage is generally archaic.