laufen

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

Verb

 * 1)  to walk; to jog; to run to move on foot; either at a normal or an increased speed
 * 2)  to flow; to leak; to run
 * 3)  to be in progress; to run
 * 4)  to happen, to go on, to take place
 * 5)  to run, to execute (a program)
 * 6)  to be in order; to work; to function
 * 7)  to pass; to flow
 * 1)  to happen, to go on, to take place
 * 2)  to run, to execute (a program)
 * 3)  to be in order; to work; to function
 * 4)  to pass; to flow
 * 1)  to be in order; to work; to function
 * 2)  to pass; to flow
 * 1)  to pass; to flow
 * 1)  to pass; to flow
 * 1)  to pass; to flow

Usage notes

 * Some dictionaries misleadingly define laufen as specifically meaning a pace between and . This was the original sense in Middle High German, and this is still common in Bavaria and Austria. But descriptions or definitions that claim it has only this meaning are contradicted by long-established usage. In fact, laufen is neutral with regard to pace in modern German, unless the context implies it, as in:
 * Regardless of pace, moreover, only is commonly used of animals and in such idioms as  or.
 * In Austria, however, laufen is not considered neutral with regard to pace, and a strict distinction is made between, which is exclusively used in the sense of “to walk”, and laufen and , both of which are exclusively used in the sense of “to run”.

Conjugation

 * 1st ps. sg. indicative present active also: ,