Abschied nehmen

/[ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

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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].

Key facts for Abschied nehmen
PropertyValue
HeadwordAbschied nehmen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Abschied nehmen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    sich verabschieden, bevor man sich für längere Zeit entfernt, bevor man für längere Zeit abwesend, getrennt sein wird
  2. 2
    mit einer Sache aufhören; sich von etwas trennen; auf etwas verzichten
  3. 3
    einer toten (kürzlich verstorbenen, zu Tode gekommenen) Person die letzte Ehrerbietung erweisen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Abschied nehmen"?
"Abschied nehmen" is spelled A-B-S-C-H-I-E-D- -N-E-H-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən].
What does "Abschied nehmen" mean?
As a phrase, "Abschied nehmen" means: sich verabschieden, bevor man sich für längere Zeit entfernt, bevor man für längere Zeit abwesend, getrennt sein wird
How do you pronounce "Abschied nehmen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Abschied nehmen" is [ˈapʃiːt ˌneːmən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Abschied nehmen" come from?
"Abschied nehmen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.