über den Jordan gehen
Letters
21 characters
Language
German
word origin
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über den Jordan gehen is aGermanphrase. It means: euphemistisch Pronounced [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | über den Jordan gehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for über den Jordan gehen is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for über den Jordan gehen 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 über den Jordan gehen, spelled Ü-B-E-R- -D-E-N- -J-O-R-D-A-N- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1euphemistisch
- 2sein Leben verlieren, ums Leben kommen; sterben
- 3umgangssprachlich
- 4sich entfernen und aus dem Blickfeld geraten; etwas selbstverschuldet oder durch ungünstige Umstände nicht halten oder bewahren können
- 5schadhaft werden, stückweise auseinanderfallen; (wirtschaftlich) zugrunde gehen
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Nearby German words
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