helfen

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to help (someone); to assist; to aid

Usage notes

 * When used as a catenative verb, helfen can be either take zu + infinitive or the bare infinitive.
 * Similarly as in modal verbs like müssen and können, when used with a bare infinitive, the past participle geholfen can be replaced by the infinitive helfen (as shown in the third example), but this phenomenon does not occur unless in obsolete or archaic speech.

Conjugation

 * The past subjunctive is rare. Even rarer variants are  and.

Etymology
, from, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and Middle English.

Verb

 * 1) to help