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In standard usage, the past tense and past participle of hang is hanged with reference to capital punishment and hung in other meanings. So curtains and pictures are hung but a convicted murderer is (or was) hanged. The distinction can be traced back ultimately to the existence of two separate words, one Old English and the other Old Norse. Hung is occasionally used in the meaning of hanged, especially in regional and dialect use.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. pl. - gardin, forhæng

Français (French)
n. pl. - tentures

Deutsch (German)
n. pl. - Vorhänge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - κουρτίνες

Italiano (Italian)
arazzi

Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - reposteiros (m pl)

Русский (Russian)
портьеры, обои

Español (Spanish)
n. pl. - colgaduras, tapices

Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - tapeter, draperier

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
绞死, 绞刑, 尤指挂在墙上的东西

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. pl. - 絞死, 絞刑, 尤指掛在牆上的東西

한국어 (Korean)
n. pl. - 거는 물건, 커튼, 벽지

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - カーテン, 壁掛け

עברית (Hebrew)
n. pl. - ‮וילונות, מסך, קלעים, תליות‬

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