při
Letters
3 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
při is aGermanprep. It means: Präposition mit dem Lokativ: Pronounced [pr̝̊ɪ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | při |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [pr̝̊ɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for při is 3 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pr̝̊ɪ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for při 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 při, spelled P-Ř-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Präposition mit dem Lokativ:
- 2drückt die örtliche Nähe aus; bei, an
- 3drückt das Bestehen des Normalzustands aus; bei
- 4drückt die Beteiligung an etwas oder den Zusammenhalt mit jemandem aus; bei
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our German index: