in den sauren Apfel beißen

/[ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩]/ phrase

Letters

26 characters

Language

German

word origin

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in den sauren Apfel beißen is aGermanphrase. It means: eine unangenehme, undankbare Aufgabe übernehmen, einen Nachteil hinnehmen Pronounced [ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩].

Key facts for in den sauren Apfel beißen
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Headwordin den sauren Apfel beißen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩]
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

in den sauren Apfel beißen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for in den sauren Apfel beißen is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩]. 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: "eine unangenehme, undankbare Aufgabe übernehmen, einen Nachteil hinnehmen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for in den sauren Apfel beißen 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 in den sauren Apfel beißen, spelled I-N- -D-E-N- -S-A-U-R-E-N- -A-P-F-E-L- -B-E-I-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine unangenehme, undankbare Aufgabe übernehmen, einen Nachteil hinnehmen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "in den sauren Apfel beißen"?
"in den sauren Apfel beißen" is spelled I-N- -D-E-N- -S-A-U-R-E-N- -A-P-F-E-L- -B-E-I-SS-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩].
What does "in den sauren Apfel beißen" mean?
As a phrase, "in den sauren Apfel beißen" means: eine unangenehme, undankbare Aufgabe übernehmen, einen Nachteil hinnehmen
How do you pronounce "in den sauren Apfel beißen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "in den sauren Apfel beißen" is [ɪn deːn ˈzaʊ̯ʁən ˈap͡fl̩ ˈbaɪ̯sn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "in den sauren Apfel beißen" come from?
"in den sauren Apfel beißen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.