See fingerbreit on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1964, Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel. Roman. 323.–372. Tausend, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, page 126",
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"text": "Translation:\n2009, Günter Grass, translation by Breon Mitchell: The Tin Drum. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 142:",
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"ref": "2003, Herta Müller, Der König verneigt sich und tötet, München/Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 70:",
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"english": "Cracks as wide as a finger spread through the hard soil, the sunflower fields were dried up, the corn was burned.",
"ref": "2010, Franziska Gehm, Der Tote im Dorfteich (Gulliver; 1160), Weinheim/Basel: Beltz & Gelberg, →ISBN, page 5:",
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"source": "declension",
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]
},
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},
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},
{
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},
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},
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{
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},
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},
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},
{
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"args": {},
"expansion": "fingerbreit (strong nominative masculine singular fingerbreiter, not comparable)",
"name": "de-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fin‧ger‧breit"
],
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{
"args": {},
"name": "de-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "Fingerbreit"
},
{
"word": "Fingerbreite"
}
],
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "fußbreit"
},
{
"word": "handbreit"
},
{
"word": "spaltbreit"
}
],
"categories": [
"German adjectives",
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German lemmas",
"German terms with homophones",
"German terms with quotations",
"German terms with usage examples",
"German uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
"english": "a finger-wide gap; to dehisce/burst open/gape open as wide as a finger",
"text": "ein fingerbreiter Spalt; fingerbreit auseinanderklaffen",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I even managed with some effort to pull the mirrored doors inward and, using the overlapping slat, to jam them with the help of a shawl I found on the cupboard floor in such a way that a finger-wide gap allowed me to see out if necessary and even let in some air.",
"ref": "1964, Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel. Roman. 323.–372. Tausend, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, page 126",
"roman": "Es gelang mir sogar, mit einiger Mühe die Spiegeltüren heranzuziehen und sie mit einem Shawl, den ich im Kastenboden fand, so mit der Anschlagleiste zu verklemmen, daß ein fingerbreiter Spalt notfalls Aussicht und einige Luftzufuhr ermöglichte.",
"text": "Translation:\n2009, Günter Grass, translation by Breon Mitchell: The Tin Drum. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 142:",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Each day hair length was checked in schools – the nape of the neck had to be shorn halfway up the [back of the] head, the earlobes had to be hair-free by a fingerbreadth.",
"ref": "2003, Herta Müller, Der König verneigt sich und tötet, München/Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 70:",
"text": "In den Schulen wurde jeden Tag die Haarlänge kontrolliert – der Nacken mußte den halben Kopf hinauf kahl sein, die Ohrläppchen fingerbreit frei stehen.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Cracks as wide as a finger spread through the hard soil, the sunflower fields were dried up, the corn was burned.",
"ref": "2010, Franziska Gehm, Der Tote im Dorfteich (Gulliver; 1160), Weinheim/Basel: Beltz & Gelberg, →ISBN, page 5:",
"text": "Durch den harten Boden zogen sich fingerbreite Risse, die Sonnenblumenfelder waren vertrocknet, der Mais verbrannt.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"by or of a fingerbreadth/fingersbreadth; finger-wide, (as) wide as a finger"
],
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[
"fingerbreadth",
"fingerbreadth"
],
[
"fingersbreadth",
"fingersbreadth"
],
[
"finger-wide",
"finger-wide"
],
[
"wide",
"wide"
],
[
"finger",
"finger"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "daumenbreit"
},
{
"word": "zollbreit"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɪŋɐˌbʁaɪ̯t]"
},
{
"homophone": "Fingerbreit"
},
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"audio": "De-Fingerbreit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/De-Fingerbreit.ogg/De-Fingerbreit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/De-Fingerbreit.ogg"
}
],
"word": "fingerbreit"
}
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