in der Luft liegen
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Language
German
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in der Luft liegen is aGermanphrase. It means: etwas riecht, duftet, stinkt Pronounced [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | in der Luft liegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for in der Luft liegen is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for in der Luft liegen 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 der Luft liegen, spelled I-N- -D-E-R- -L-U-F-T- -L-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas riecht, duftet, stinkt
- 2erwarten/wahrnehmen/spüren, dass etwas (meist Negatives) passieren wird; Gefühl, dass unter vielen Menschen verbreitet ist
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