har man sagt A, må man også sige B
The verdict
“har man sagt A, må man også sige B” 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
- 34
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: wenn man mit etwas anfängt, so muss man es auch zu Ende führen; wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | har man sagt A, må man også sige B |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈhɑ man sɑɡ̊d̥ ɛˀ mɔ ʌs siː b̥eˀ] |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “har man sagt A, må man også sige B” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for har man sagt A, må man også sige B is 34 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɑ man sɑɡ̊d̥ ɛˀ mɔ ʌs siː b̥eˀ]. 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: "wenn man mit etwas anfängt, so muss man es auch zu Ende führen; wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen".
No misspelling variants are generated for har man sagt A, må man også sige B 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 har man sagt A, må man også sige B, spelled H-A-R- -M-A-N- -S-A-G-T- -A-,- -M-Å- -M-A-N- -O-G-S-Å- -S-I-G-E- -B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wenn man mit etwas anfängt, so muss man es auch zu Ende führen; wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-R- -M-A-N- -S-A-G-T- -A-,- -M-Å- -M-A-N- -O-G-S-Å- -S-I-G-E- -B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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