Abschied nehmen
Letters
15 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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Abschied nehmen is aGermanphrase. It means: sich verabschieden, bevor man sich für längere Zeit entfernt, bevor man für längere Zeit abwesend, getrennt sein wird Pronounced [ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abschied nehmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Abschied nehmen is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Abschied nehmen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Abschied nehmen, spelled A-B-S-C-H-I-E-D- -N-E-H-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich verabschieden, bevor man sich für längere Zeit entfernt, bevor man für längere Zeit abwesend, getrennt sein wird
- 2mit einer Sache aufhören; sich von etwas trennen; auf etwas verzichten
- 3einer toten (kürzlich verstorbenen, zu Tode gekommenen) Person die letzte Ehrerbietung erweisen
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