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stürzen: fall — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

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stürzen

fall

to fall suddenly or heavily, often losing balance

IPA/ˈʃtʏʁtsn̩/

The main stress follows standard German pronunciation.

stürzen: fall

Meaning 1neutral · 88%

to fall suddenly or heavily, often losing balance

Er ist auf dem nassen Weg mit dem Fahrrad gestürzt.

Halt dich am Geländer fest, damit du nicht stürzt.

Die Patientin stürzte gestern in ihrer Wohnung.

The perfect is typically ist gestürzt. stolpern means to stumble; stürzen emphasizes the actual fall.

Use sein in the perfect: Er ist gestürzt. A stumble does not always lead to a fall, but stürzen does.

Choose one answer.

Which perfect form is correct for an accidental fall?

In the intransitive use represented here, stürzen means to fall suddenly or heavily. It normally takes sein in the perfect: Er ist gestürzt.