so tun, als ob

/[zoː tuːn als ˈɔp]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

so tun, als ob is aGermanphrase. It means: sich verstellen, simulieren, vorgeben, vortäuschen; jemand 'tut so, als ob' + Konjunktiv Pronounced [zoː tuːn als ˈɔp].

Key facts for so tun, als ob
PropertyValue
Headwordso tun, als ob
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[zoː tuːn als ˈɔp]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

so tun, als ob is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for so tun, als ob is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zoː tuːn als ˈɔp]. 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: "sich verstellen, simulieren, vorgeben, vortäuschen; jemand 'tut so, als ob' + Konjunktiv".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for so tun, als ob in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 so tun, als ob, spelled S-O- -T-U-N-,- -A-L-S- -O-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sich verstellen, simulieren, vorgeben, vortäuschen; jemand 'tut so, als ob' + Konjunktiv

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "so tun, als ob"?
"so tun, als ob" is spelled S-O- -T-U-N-,- -A-L-S- -O-B. The IPA pronunciation is [zoː tuːn als ˈɔp].
What does "so tun, als ob" mean?
As a phrase, "so tun, als ob" means: sich verstellen, simulieren, vorgeben, vortäuschen; jemand 'tut so, als ob' + Konjunktiv
How do you pronounce "so tun, als ob"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "so tun, als ob" is [zoː tuːn als ˈɔp]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "so tun, als ob" come from?
"so tun, als ob" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.