relaxen

relaxen

1. third-person plural present indicative of relaxar

From English relax.

• IPA^(key): /riˈlɛk.sə(n)/

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relaxen

1. (intransitive, informal) to relax

   Synonym: ontspannen

Borrowed from English relax.

• IPA^(key): /ʁiˈlɛksn̩/
• Rhymes: -ɛksn̩
• Hyphenation: re‧la‧xen

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relaxen (weak or irregular weak, third-person singular present relaxt, past tense relaxte, past participle relaxt or relaxed, auxiliary haben)

1. to relax

• German verbs borrowed from English can optionally form the past participle (Partizip II) in -ed in two cases^[1]
  1. The English verb ends in a silent ⟨e⟩:

     English like → German liken → geliked (previously only gelikt)

  2. The verb's past participle is usually not inflected:

     English relax → German relaxen → relaxed (previously only relaxt)

• But -ed- is not permitted when the participle is inflected, thus:

  meine gelikten Bilder (not meine *gelikeden Bilder)

  ein relaxter Abend (not ein *relaxeder Abend)

• “relaxen” in Duden online
• “relaxen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Middle French relaxer (“remit, pardon (sins), liberate, acquit, loosen, slacken”) as well as its etymon Latin relaxāre (“relax, loosen, open”).

relaxen

1. (transitive) loosen, make (something) less compact or dense
2. (intransitive) loosen (become loose), slacken
3. (transitive) remit, annul (a debt or other obligation)

• English: relax (see there for further descendants)

• “relax, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “relaxen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.