ge sig till känna
The verdict
“ge sig till känna” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich hören lassen, mitteilen, dass man in der Nähe ist seine Anwesenheit bekanntgeben; sich zu erkennen geben; sich zeigen oder bemerkbarmachen; sich outen „sich zu Kennen geben“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ge sig till känna |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeː sɛ̝jː tɪlˈɕɛ̝nːa] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ge sig till känna” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ge sig till känna is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeː sɛ̝jː tɪlˈɕɛ̝nːa]. 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: "sich hören lassen, mitteilen, dass man in der Nähe ist seine Anwesenheit bekanntgeben; sich zu erkennen geben; sich zeigen oder bemerkbarmachen; sich outen „sich zu Kennen geben“".
No misspelling variants are generated for ge sig till känna 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 sig till känna, spelled G-E- -S-I-G- -T-I-L-L- -K-Ä-N-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich hören lassen, mitteilen, dass man in der Nähe ist seine Anwesenheit bekanntgeben; sich zu erkennen geben; sich zeigen oder bemerkbarmachen; sich outen „sich zu Kennen geben“
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Using “ge sig till känna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-E- -S-I-G- -T-I-L-L- -K-Ä-N-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjeː sɛ̝jː tɪlˈɕɛ̝nːa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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