stoppen.
to stop
Meaning & usage
to stop
Wir müssen diese Entwicklung stoppen.
Das Auto hat vor der Kreuzung gestoppt.
alternative form of stopfen (“to stuff, to plug”)
Musste dein Zeug da so unvorsichtig reinstoppen?
to measure time with a stopwatch
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle Low German stoppen, from Old Saxon *stoppōn. As in Dutch stoppen, the sense “to stop” is figurative from water flow being stopped by plugging. Only in this figurative meaning has the form been adopted into standard German proper, under the reinforcing influence of English to stop. Doublet of stopfen and staffieren.
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