vara envis som en åsna

/[`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna]/ phrase

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Language

German

word origin

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vara envis som en åsna is aGermanphrase. It means: störrisch wie ein Esel sein, oder auch hartnäckig; „eigensinnig wie ein Esel sein“ Pronounced [`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna].

Key facts for vara envis som en åsna
PropertyValue
Headwordvara envis som en åsna
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna]
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vara envis som en åsna 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 vara envis som en åsna is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna]. 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: "störrisch wie ein Esel sein, oder auch hartnäckig; „eigensinnig wie ein Esel sein“".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vara envis som en åsna 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 vara envis som en åsna, spelled V-A-R-A- -E-N-V-I-S- -S-O-M- -E-N- -Å-S-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    störrisch wie ein Esel sein, oder auch hartnäckig; „eigensinnig wie ein Esel sein“

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vara envis som en åsna"?
"vara envis som en åsna" is spelled V-A-R-A- -E-N-V-I-S- -S-O-M- -E-N- -Å-S-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna].
What does "vara envis som en åsna" mean?
As a phrase, "vara envis som en åsna" means: störrisch wie ein Esel sein, oder auch hartnäckig; „eigensinnig wie ein Esel sein“
How do you pronounce "vara envis som en åsna"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vara envis som en åsna" is [`vɑːra `eːnˌviːs ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `oːsna]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vara envis som en åsna" come from?
"vara envis som en åsna" 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.