jemandem sind die Hände gebunden

/[ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩]/ phrase

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German

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jemandem sind die Hände gebunden is aGermanphrase. It means: am Handeln gehindert sein, keine (zulässige/vertretbare) Möglichkeit der Einflussnahme haben, nichts machen können Pronounced [ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩].

Key facts for jemandem sind die Hände gebunden
PropertyValue
Headwordjemandem sind die Hände gebunden
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩]
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemandem sind die Hände gebunden 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 sind die Hände gebunden is 32 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩]. 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: "am Handeln gehindert sein, keine (zulässige/vertretbare) Möglichkeit der Einflussnahme haben, nichts machen können".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem sind die Hände gebunden 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 sind die Hände gebunden, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -S-I-N-D- -D-I-E- -H-Ä-N-D-E- -G-E-B-U-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    am Handeln gehindert sein, keine (zulässige/vertretbare) Möglichkeit der Einflussnahme haben, nichts machen können

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden"?
"jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -S-I-N-D- -D-I-E- -H-Ä-N-D-E- -G-E-B-U-N-D-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩].
What does "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" mean?
As a phrase, "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" means: am Handeln gehindert sein, keine (zulässige/vertretbare) Möglichkeit der Einflussnahme haben, nichts machen können
How do you pronounce "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" is [ˈjeːmandəm zɪnt diː ˈhɛndə ɡəˈbʊndn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" come from?
"jemandem sind die Hände gebunden" 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.