formulieren

Borrowed from French formuler, ultimately from Latin fōrmula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); whence Form.

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁmuˈliːʁən/

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formulieren (weak, third-person singular present formuliert, past tense formulierte, past participle formuliert, auxiliary haben) (transitive)

1. to formulate, to put into words (a thought, question, request)
   1. (especially) to phrase, to word (to put something a certain way, as opposed to an alternative way to express the same basic content)

      Ich hätte das anders formuliert. ― I'd have phrased that differently.

2. (mathematics, sciences) to formulate (a hypothesis, etc.)

• Formulierung
• ausformulieren
• umformulieren

• “formulieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “formulieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “formulieren” in Duden online
• “formulieren” in OpenThesaurus.de