ein Fass ohne Boden sein
Letters
24 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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tracked variants
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similar word pairs
ein Fass ohne Boden sein is aGermanphrase. It means: immer neue Investitionen verschlingend, weitere Mühen erfordernd, ohne dass jemals ein befriedigendes Ergebnis erreicht wird; ein Danaidenfass sein Pronounced [aɪ̯n ˈfas oːnə ˈboːdn̩ zaɪ̯n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ein Fass ohne Boden sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aɪ̯n ˈfas oːnə ˈboːdn̩ zaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for ein Fass ohne Boden sein is 24 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯n ˈfas oːnə ˈboːdn̩ zaɪ̯n]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "immer neue Investitionen verschlingend, weitere Mühen erfordernd, ohne dass jemals ein befriedigendes Ergebnis erreicht wird; ein Danaidenfass sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for ein Fass ohne Boden sein in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 ein Fass ohne Boden sein, spelled E-I-N- -F-A-S-S- -O-H-N-E- -B-O-D-E-N- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1immer neue Investitionen verschlingend, weitere Mühen erfordernd, ohne dass jemals ein befriedigendes Ergebnis erreicht wird; ein Danaidenfass sein
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