nachhängen
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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nachhängen is aGermanverb. It means: sich etwas im Geiste anhaltend hingeben, widmen Pronounced [ˈnaːxˌhɛŋən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachhängen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌhɛŋən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for nachhängen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaːxˌhɛŋən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nachhängen 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 nachhängen, spelled N-A-C-H-H-Ä-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich etwas im Geiste anhaltend hingeben, widmen
- 2mit Wehmut und voller Sehnsucht an jemanden/etwas zurückdenken
- 3mit jemandem verknüpft sein; jemandem eigen sein
- 4in einem Plan, in einem Fach, auf einem Gebiet oder dergleichen in Rückstand geraten sein; auf einem Wissensgebiet, das man eigentlich beherrschen sollte, noch Schwierigkeiten haben und deshalb im Wissensstoff zurückgeblieben sein
- 5(eine Fährte) mit dem Hund nachgehen
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