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gestalten

design

verb geh-SHTAL-ten Less Common
Arts & Culture Visual Arts

Also means

shape

Usage Note

gestalten means to actively give form to something, from a web page to an event to a free afternoon: den Tag gestalten ('to shape the day'). It comes from Gestalt ('form, shape'), the same word psychology borrowed into English. The ge- here is part of the stem, not a participle prefix, so the past participle is gestaltet.

Examples

"Wir gestalten die Einladung selbst."

Natural Translation

We're designing the invitation ourselves.

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