Apposition
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Apposition is aGermannoun. It means: (weglassbare) Beistellung im (nominalen, …) Satzglied, die meistens im gleichen Kasus wie das Bezugsnomen steht und auf den gleichen Sachverhalt, die gleiche Person oder Ähnliches verweist. Sie kan... Pronounced [apoziˈt͡si̯oːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apposition |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apoziˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Apposition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apoziˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Apposition 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 Apposition, spelled A-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(weglassbare) Beistellung im (nominalen, …) Satzglied, die meistens im gleichen Kasus wie das Bezugsnomen steht und auf den gleichen Sachverhalt, die gleiche Person oder Ähnliches verweist. Sie kann auch abweichend vom Bezugsnomen im Nominativ stehen. (Viele Linguisten betrachten Appositionen als eine Sonderform des Attributs; sie verhalten sich aber syntaktisch anders.)
- 2„Anlagerung von Substanzen (zum Beispiel Dickenwachstum pflanzlicher Zellwände oder Anlagerung von Knochensubstanz beim Aufbau der Knochen)“
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