German

Verb

vorstellen ‎(third-person singular simple present stellt vor, past tense stellte vor, past participle vorgestellt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to move (something) forward
2. (transitive) to put (the clocks) forward
3. (transitive) to represent; to mean
4. (transitive) to introduce (someone), to present
5. (reflexive) to move forward
6. (reflexive, vorstellen) to introduce oneself
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 51:

     Und da er keinen Grund hatte, ihr seinen Namen zu verhehlen, so stellte er sich in aller Form vor.

     And because he had no reason to conceal his name from her, he introduced himself in all due form.

7. (reflexive, vorstellen) to imagine (sich is in the dative case)

   Ich kann's mir nicht vorstellen!‎

   I can't imagine this!

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Derived terms

• Vorstellung