fasten
Verbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈfɑːsn̩//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈfæsn̩//
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
Verb
- 1
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
Fasten your seat belts!
Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- 2
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
to fasten a blow
if I can fasten but one cup upon him
Herkunft
From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastinōn (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast + -en.
Formen
- Präteritum
- fastened
- Partizip II
- fastened
- Partizip I
- fastening
- 3. Person Singular
- fastens