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.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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