obávat se
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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obávat se is aGermanverb. It means: ein unangenehmes Gefühl haben, in Erwartung von etwas, das Angst macht; sich vor etwas/jemandem fürchten, etwas befürchten Pronounced [ˈɔbaːvat͡sɛ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obávat se |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɔbaːvat͡sɛ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for obávat se is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɔbaːvat͡sɛ]. 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 misspelling variants are generated for obávat se 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 obávat se, spelled O-B-Á-V-A-T- -S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein unangenehmes Gefühl haben, in Erwartung von etwas, das Angst macht; sich vor etwas/jemandem fürchten, etwas befürchten
- 2voll Sorge sein; um etwas in Sorge sein, um etwas besorgt sein, bangen
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