jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten

/[ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩]/ phrase

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35 characters

Language

German

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jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten is aGermanphrase. It means: jemanden kränken, an seiner empfindlichsten Stelle treffen Pronounced [ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩].

Key facts for jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten
PropertyValue
Headwordjemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩]
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten is 35 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩]. 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: "jemanden kränken, an seiner empfindlichsten Stelle treffen".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten 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 jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-U-F- -D-I-E- -H-Ü-H-N-E-R-A-U-G-E-N- -T-R-E-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    jemanden kränken, an seiner empfindlichsten Stelle treffen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten"?
"jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-U-F- -D-I-E- -H-Ü-H-N-E-R-A-U-G-E-N- -T-R-E-T-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩].
What does "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" mean?
As a phrase, "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" means: jemanden kränken, an seiner empfindlichsten Stelle treffen
How do you pronounce "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" is [ˈjeːmandəm aʊ̯f diː ˈhyːnɐˌʔaʊ̯ɡŋ̩ ˈtʁeːtn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" come from?
"jemandem auf die Hühneraugen treten" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.