Timeline for How do you ask for the meaning of a word in German?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 8:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 21, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | Toscho |
@Emanuel After the OP changed his question, it seems to me, that he is very much asking for meaning and not for translation. So, I'm keeping to my answer and don't include heißen in its various applications.
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| May 21, 2014 at 14:55 | history | edited | Toscho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2014 at 10:28 | comment | added | Avalander | Thanks everybody for the input. I updated the question to meet the requirements. Maybe you want to update your answer in order to fit better to the updated question (: | |
| May 21, 2014 at 9:50 | comment | added | Zane | Option 5 is good 8^) As a native speaker, I find Option 2 to 4 a little posh. Use "Was heißt ..." or Option 1. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 9:40 | vote | accept | Avalander | ||
| May 21, 2014 at 9:27 | comment | added | collapsar | +1 for including the universal 'häh' :) | |
| May 21, 2014 at 8:47 | comment | added | Wottensprels | Thank you for the suggestion of 'Häh'. Instead of asking 'Wie muss ich [Wort] verstehen?', I would rather include the term 'Begriff' to avoid confusion: "Könnten Sie mir die Bedeutung des Begriffs [Wort] erklären?". A little more complex, though. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 8:23 | comment | added | user6191 | Additionally: Was heißt [Wort]? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 7:54 | comment | added | Raphael | The fifth variant is, arguably, the only feasible option in Hessen. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 7:42 | comment | added | Emanuel | In context of languages I also use "heißen"... Was heißt blah blah auf Deutsch." I think this (translation) is what OP is going for and not the so much the "how am I supposed to understand this" which would be the second of your examples. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 7:39 | history | answered | Toscho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |