was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr

/[vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯]/ phrase

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German

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was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr is aGermanphrase. It means: In jungen Jahren werden Lerninhalte besser aufgenommen Pronounced [vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯].

Key facts for was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr
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Headwordwas Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯]
Letters47
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr is 47 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯]. 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: "In jungen Jahren werden Lerninhalte besser aufgenommen".

No misspelling variants are generated for was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr 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 was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr, spelled W-A-S- -H-Ä-N-S-C-H-E-N- -N-I-C-H-T- -L-E-R-N-T-,- -L-E-R-N-T- -H-A-N-S- -N-I-M-M-E-R-M-E-H-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    In jungen Jahren werden Lerninhalte besser aufgenommen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr"?
"was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" is spelled W-A-S- -H-Ä-N-S-C-H-E-N- -N-I-C-H-T- -L-E-R-N-T-,- -L-E-R-N-T- -H-A-N-S- -N-I-M-M-E-R-M-E-H-R. The IPA pronunciation is [vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯].
What does "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" mean?
As a phrase, "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" means: In jungen Jahren werden Lerninhalte besser aufgenommen
How do you pronounce "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" is [vas ˈhɛnsçən nɪçt lɛʁnt lɛʁnt hans ˈnɪmɐˌmeːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" come from?
"was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.