Sentences with German verb lehnen

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Present

  • Lehnt die Leiter an die Wand. 
    English Stand the ladder against the wall.
  • Der Zug hat die Stadtgrenze noch nicht erreicht, da lehne ich bereits an der Schulter meines Mannes und schlafe. 
    English The train has not yet reached the city limits, as I am already leaning on my husband's shoulder and sleeping.

Imperfect

  • Tom lehnte am Geländer. 
    English Tom was leaning against the rail.
  • Tom lehnte an der Wand. 
    English Tom leaned against the wall.
  • Er lehnte sich gegen die Wand. 
    English He was leaning against the wall.
  • Er lehnte die Leiter an den Zaun. 
    English He placed the ladder against the fence.
  • Sie lehnten sich über eine Trockenmauer. 
    English They leant over a drystone wall.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

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Imperative

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Infinitive

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Participle

  • Ich habe mich gegen die Wand gelehnt . 
    English I leaned against the wall.
  • Ich habe die Leiter gegen die Wand gelehnt . 
    English I leaned the ladder against the wall.
  • Die Baracken standen schief aneinander gelehnt wie die wackligen Tische eines schlechten Hobbyschreiners. 
    English The barracks stood crookedly leaning against each other like the wobbly tables of a bad hobby carpenter.

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Indicative

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  • Tom lehnte am Geländer. 
    English Tom was leaning against the rail.
  • Tom lehnte an der Wand. 
    English Tom leaned against the wall.
  • Lehnt die Leiter an die Wand. 
    English Stand the ladder against the wall.
  • Er lehnte sich gegen die Wand. 
    English He was leaning against the wall.
  • Er lehnte die Leiter an den Zaun. 
    English He placed the ladder against the fence.
  • Der Zug hat die Stadtgrenze noch nicht erreicht, da lehne ich bereits an der Schulter meines Mannes und schlafe. 
    English The train has not yet reached the city limits, as I am already leaning on my husband's shoulder and sleeping.
  • Sie lehnten sich über eine Trockenmauer. 
    English They leant over a drystone wall.

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Conditional (würde)

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Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German lehnen


German lehnen
English lean against, lean, lean on, abut (against), abut (on), back (against), lean (against), lean (over)
Russian наклонять, облокачиваться, опираться, прислонять, прислоняться, опереться, приставить, приставлять
Spanish apoyar, adosar a, apoyar contra, apoyar en, apoyarse, arrimar, arrimarse, estar apoyado
French adosser contre, adosser à, appuyer contre, caler, incliner, pencher, s'adosser contre, s'adosser à
Turkish dayanmak, yaslanmak, yaslamak, dayamak
Portuguese apoiar, apoiar-se, apoiar-se contra, apoiar-se em, apoio, encostar, encostar-se, encostar-se a
Italian appoggiare, appoggiarsi, appoggiarsi a, appoggiarsi contro, essere appoggiata a, essere appoggiata contro, essere appoggiato, essere appoggiato a
Romanian sprijini, înclina
Hungarian dől, hajlik, támaszkodik, támaszt
Polish opierać o, pochylać, stać opartym, wychylać z
Greek ακουμπώ, κλίνω, στηρίζομαι
Dutch leunen, steunen, leggen, zich buigen
Czech naklonit
Swedish luta, luta sig, lutning, stå lutad, stödja
Danish læne, længe, støtte
Japanese もたれる, 傾く, 傾ける, 寄りかかる, 立てかける, 身を乗り出す
Catalan inclinar
Finnish asettaa nojaamaan, noja, nojaaminen, nojata
Norwegian lene
Basque euskaldun
Serbian nagnuti, osloniti
Macedonian наклон
Slovenian nagniti, nasloniti
Slowakisch nakloniť
Bosnian nagnuti, osloniti
Croatian nagnuti
Ukrainian нахиляти
Bulgarian наклонявам, опирам
Belorussian нахіляць
Indonesian miringkan
Vietnamese nghiêng
Uzbek egilmoq
Hindi झुकना
Chinese 倾斜
Thai เอียง
Korean 기울이다
Azerbaijani eğilmək
Georgian ახრენა
Bengali ঝুঁকে পড়া
Albanian përkul
Marathi झुकणे
Nepali झुक्नु
Telugu వంచించు
Latvian sliekties
Tamil சாய்வது
Estonian kalduma
Armenian թեքել
Kurdish êgilîn
Hebrewלהישען
Arabicمالَ، ميل
Persianتکیه دادن
Urduجھکانا، سہارا دینا

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Meanings and synonyms of lehnen

  • den Körper schräg stellen
  • (sich) stützen (auf), abhängig sein (von)

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* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 439489, 17999, 11869

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 371756, 2853250, 1938110, 768569, 707192, 10366754, 4844852, 4844853

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: lehnen

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 87665

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