ge någon kalla handen
The verdict
“ge någon kalla handen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ungerührt ablehnen, was jemand wünscht, jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen; jemandem eine Abfuhr verpassen, jemandem eine Abfuhr erteilen; „die kalte Hand geben“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ge någon kalla handen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeː `noːɡɔn `kalːa ˈhandən] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ge någon kalla handen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ge någon kalla handen is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeː `noːɡɔn `kalːa ˈhandən]. 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: "ungerührt ablehnen, was jemand wünscht, jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen; jemandem eine Abfuhr verpassen, jemandem eine Abfuhr erteilen; „die kalte Hand geben“".
No misspelling variants are generated for ge någon kalla handen 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 ge någon kalla handen, spelled G-E- -N-Å-G-O-N- -K-A-L-L-A- -H-A-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ungerührt ablehnen, was jemand wünscht, jemandem die kalte Schulter zeigen; jemandem eine Abfuhr verpassen, jemandem eine Abfuhr erteilen; „die kalte Hand geben“
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Using “ge någon kalla handen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E- -N-Å-G-O-N- -K-A-L-L-A- -H-A-N-D-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjeː `noːɡɔn `kalːa ˈhandən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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