bring down
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bring down is aGermanverb. It means: herunterbringen Pronounced [brɪŋ daʊn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bring down |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [brɪŋ daʊn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bring down is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [brɪŋ daʊn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bring down 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 bring down, spelled B-R-I-N-G- -D-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1herunterbringen
- 2abschießen, herunterholen
- 3herunterbringen (ein Flugzeug bei der Landung, einen Drachen oder Ähnliches), einziehen
- 4jemanden zur Strecke bringen (eine Person, ein Tier)
- 5senken (die Preise, die Arbeitslosenrate)
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