verhaften
/fɛɐ̯ˈhaftn̩/ verb B1- to stop moving and instead stick, or make or become bound (more or less literally or figuratively)
- to imprison, to put into confinement after judicial writ (the state of which is called Haft) (this is the most common signification in its strict definition, of which however legal laymen may deviate to mean any kind of government arrest) · verhaftet und eingesperrt. arrested and detained.
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- verhaften
- Present (er)
- verhaftet
- Präteritum (er)
- verhaftete
- Perfekt (er)
- hat verhaftet
- Infinitive with zu
- zu verhaften
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