Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

    brachlegen

Examples

6 sentences

  1. My field has turned into fallow land.

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  2. That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.

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  3. Every seven years we let the land lie fallow.

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  4. Their field has not been used, it has been left fallow.

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  5. This field is fallow.

    deDieses Feld liegt brach. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
plough land without sowing seeds:

Origin

From Middle English falowen, falwen, from Old English fealgian (“to fallow; break up land”

From Middle English falowen, falwen, from Old English fealgian (“to fallow; break up land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgōn (“to fallow”). Cognate with Dutch valgen (“to plow lightly; fallow”), German Low German falgen (“to till; dig a hole”).

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Forms

fallows, fallowing, fallowed, fallowed
Base formfallow · to fallow
3rd person singularfallows
Present participlefallowing
Past simplefallowed
Past participlefallowed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfallow
he, she, itfallows

Past simpleLesson

all personsfallowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fallowed
he, she, ithas fallowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fallow

Word family

6 related words
Derivedfallowedfallowerfallowingsummer-fallowtrifallowtwifallow

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fallA2fallacyC2falliblefalloutfalseA1
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