wie geht es dir

/[ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wie geht es dir is aGermanphrase. It means: Frage nach dem Wohlbefinden oder dem Gesundheitszustand einer befreundeten oder gut bekannten Person Pronounced [ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯].

Key facts for wie geht es dir
PropertyValue
Headwordwie geht es dir
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

wie geht es dir 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 wie geht es dir is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯]. 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: "Frage nach dem Wohlbefinden oder dem Gesundheitszustand einer befreundeten oder gut bekannten Person".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wie geht es dir 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 wie geht es dir, spelled W-I-E- -G-E-H-T- -E-S- -D-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Frage nach dem Wohlbefinden oder dem Gesundheitszustand einer befreundeten oder gut bekannten Person

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wie geht es dir"?
"wie geht es dir" is spelled W-I-E- -G-E-H-T- -E-S- -D-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯].
What does "wie geht es dir" mean?
As a phrase, "wie geht es dir" means: Frage nach dem Wohlbefinden oder dem Gesundheitszustand einer befreundeten oder gut bekannten Person
How do you pronounce "wie geht es dir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wie geht es dir" is [ˌviː ˈɡeːt əs ˌdiːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wie geht es dir" come from?
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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.