See werweissen on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "The word is a verbal derivative of the expression “wer weiss… (ob, wann, wo)…” meaning “who knows… (if, when, where)…”. Thus, literally “to who-knows”.",
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{
"form": "werweisst",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "werweisste",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
{
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},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "de-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "werweissen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "werweissend",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "gewerweisst",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"past"
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},
{
"form": "werweisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "werweisse",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-i"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"plural",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-i"
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},
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"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
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},
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"form": "werweissest",
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"singular",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-i"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"second-person",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-i"
]
},
{
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
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"subjunctive",
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"form": "werweisste",
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"indicative",
"preterite",
"singular"
]
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"plural",
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"rare",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-ii"
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"plural",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"preterite",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"plural",
"preterite",
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"subjunctive",
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"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-ii"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"indicative",
"multiword-construction",
"perfect",
"singular"
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"perfect",
"singular",
"third-person"
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{
"form": "werweissen werden",
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"future-i",
"infinitive",
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},
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"subjunctive",
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"subjunctive",
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{
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"ref": "1990, Felix Mettler: Der Keiler: Roman. Ammann, Zürich, page 73 (Google Books; retrieved October 11, 2015)",
"text": "Sie kamen auf der kurzen Fahrt zur medizinischen Fakultät wieder auf Götze zu sprechen, werweißten weiter um sein Wegbleiben, auch jetzt, ohne eine sinnvolle Erklärung zu finden.\nOn the short drive to the Faculty of Medicine they again came to talk about Götze, [they] continuted speculating about his absence, even now, without finding a reasonable explanation.",
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"english": "Kohl had announced his visit to Yeltsin when the whole world was still speculating about the actual condition of the Russian president.",
"ref": "1996 September 9, Roman Berger, “Helmut Kohl auf Chefvisite”, in Zürcher Tagesanzeiger, number 34, page 4:",
"text": "Kohl hatte seinen Besuch bei Jelzin angekündigt, als die ganze Welt noch über den tatsächlichen Zustand des russischen Präsidenten werweisste.",
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"english": "For a long time a shot in the dark had to be taken whether the [regional] government of Aargau walks along the chosen financial/fiscal policy path – or whether it lost courage.",
"ref": "2003 June 26, “Regierung will das Referendum”, in Die Nordwestschweiz, page 1:",
"text": "Lange musste gewerweisst werden, ob die Aargauer Regierung den eingeschlagenen finanzpolitischen Pfad weiter beschreitet - oder ob sie der Mut verlässt.",
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"english": "I am asking myself – balancing the ballpoint on a fingertip – what it is that I could possibly have to say to you?",
"ref": "2006 September 27, “Sehr geehrter Dr. Schalter”, in Berner Zeitung, page 22:",
"text": "Ich werweisse, den Kugelschreiber auf einer Fingerkuppe balancierend, was ich Ihnen bloss zu sagen haben könnte?",
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},
{
"english": "I was (still) undecided/unsure for a moment whether I should make five or six [galloping] strides.",
"ref": "2007 August 20, “Bittere Tränen bei Christina”, in Blick, page 6:",
"text": "Ich werweisste einen Moment, ob ich fünf oder sechs Galoppsprünge machen sollte.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to speculate, to guess, to take a shot in the dark; to be (still) undecided, hesitating, unsure; to ask oneself (what to do)"
],
"id": "en-werweissen-de-verb-UUPdP96P",
"links": [
[
"speculate",
"speculate"
],
[
"guess",
"guess"
],
[
"take a shot in the dark",
"take a shot in the dark"
],
[
"be",
"be#English"
],
[
"still",
"still#English"
],
[
"undecided",
"undecided"
],
[
"hesitating",
"hesitating"
],
[
"unsure",
"unsure"
],
[
"ask",
"ask"
],
[
"oneself",
"oneself"
],
[
"what",
"what#English"
],
[
"to",
"to#English"
],
[
"do",
"do"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Switzerland, Liechtenstein) to speculate, to guess, to take a shot in the dark; to be (still) undecided, hesitating, unsure; to ask oneself (what to do)"
],
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{
"word": "annehmen"
},
{
"word": "sich fragen"
},
{
"word": "mutmaßen/mutmassen"
},
{
"word": "rätseln"
},
{
"word": "vermuten"
},
{
"word": ";"
},
{
"word": "brüten"
},
{
"word": "grübeln"
},
{
"word": "knobeln"
},
{
"word": "nachsinnen"
},
{
"word": "reflektieren"
},
{
"english": "rare and primarily outside of Switzerland and Liechtenstein",
"word": "werweißen"
}
],
"tags": [
"Liechtenstein",
"Switzerland",
"weak"
],
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"de:Schweizerisches Idiotikon"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sn̩]",
"note": "Standard German of Germany"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːʁˌvaɪ̯sːe̝n]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːʁˌvæɪ̯sːe̝n]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sən]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sn̩]",
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"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
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}
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"etymology_text": "The word is a verbal derivative of the expression “wer weiss… (ob, wann, wo)…” meaning “who knows… (if, when, where)…”. Thus, literally “to who-knows”.",
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"preterite",
"second-person",
"singular"
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"plural",
"preterite",
"second-person"
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},
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"rare",
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"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
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"second-person",
"singular"
]
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]
},
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]
},
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"indicative",
"multiword-construction",
"perfect",
"singular"
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"multiword-construction",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-ii",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "würden gewerweisst haben",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"future",
"future-ii",
"multiword-construction",
"plural",
"subjunctive",
"subjunctive-ii",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "werweissen (weak, third-person singular present werweisst, past tense werweisste, past participle gewerweisst, auxiliary haben)",
"name": "de-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"wer‧weis‧sen"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "de-conj"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German lemmas",
"German terms with quotations",
"German verbs",
"German verbs using haben as auxiliary",
"German weak verbs",
"Liechtenstein German",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Switzerland German"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1990, Felix Mettler: Der Keiler: Roman. Ammann, Zürich, page 73 (Google Books; retrieved October 11, 2015)",
"text": "Sie kamen auf der kurzen Fahrt zur medizinischen Fakultät wieder auf Götze zu sprechen, werweißten weiter um sein Wegbleiben, auch jetzt, ohne eine sinnvolle Erklärung zu finden.\nOn the short drive to the Faculty of Medicine they again came to talk about Götze, [they] continuted speculating about his absence, even now, without finding a reasonable explanation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Kohl had announced his visit to Yeltsin when the whole world was still speculating about the actual condition of the Russian president.",
"ref": "1996 September 9, Roman Berger, “Helmut Kohl auf Chefvisite”, in Zürcher Tagesanzeiger, number 34, page 4:",
"text": "Kohl hatte seinen Besuch bei Jelzin angekündigt, als die ganze Welt noch über den tatsächlichen Zustand des russischen Präsidenten werweisste.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "For a long time a shot in the dark had to be taken whether the [regional] government of Aargau walks along the chosen financial/fiscal policy path – or whether it lost courage.",
"ref": "2003 June 26, “Regierung will das Referendum”, in Die Nordwestschweiz, page 1:",
"text": "Lange musste gewerweisst werden, ob die Aargauer Regierung den eingeschlagenen finanzpolitischen Pfad weiter beschreitet - oder ob sie der Mut verlässt.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "I am asking myself – balancing the ballpoint on a fingertip – what it is that I could possibly have to say to you?",
"ref": "2006 September 27, “Sehr geehrter Dr. Schalter”, in Berner Zeitung, page 22:",
"text": "Ich werweisse, den Kugelschreiber auf einer Fingerkuppe balancierend, was ich Ihnen bloss zu sagen haben könnte?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "I was (still) undecided/unsure for a moment whether I should make five or six [galloping] strides.",
"ref": "2007 August 20, “Bittere Tränen bei Christina”, in Blick, page 6:",
"text": "Ich werweisste einen Moment, ob ich fünf oder sechs Galoppsprünge machen sollte.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to speculate, to guess, to take a shot in the dark; to be (still) undecided, hesitating, unsure; to ask oneself (what to do)"
],
"links": [
[
"speculate",
"speculate"
],
[
"guess",
"guess"
],
[
"take a shot in the dark",
"take a shot in the dark"
],
[
"be",
"be#English"
],
[
"still",
"still#English"
],
[
"undecided",
"undecided"
],
[
"hesitating",
"hesitating"
],
[
"unsure",
"unsure"
],
[
"ask",
"ask"
],
[
"oneself",
"oneself"
],
[
"what",
"what#English"
],
[
"to",
"to#English"
],
[
"do",
"do"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Switzerland, Liechtenstein) to speculate, to guess, to take a shot in the dark; to be (still) undecided, hesitating, unsure; to ask oneself (what to do)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "annehmen"
},
{
"word": "sich fragen"
},
{
"word": "mutmaßen/mutmassen"
},
{
"word": "rätseln"
},
{
"word": "vermuten"
},
{
"word": ";"
},
{
"word": "brüten"
},
{
"word": "grübeln"
},
{
"word": "knobeln"
},
{
"word": "nachsinnen"
},
{
"word": "reflektieren"
}
],
"tags": [
"Liechtenstein",
"Switzerland",
"weak"
],
"wikipedia": [
"de:Schweizerisches Idiotikon"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sn̩]",
"note": "Standard German of Germany"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːʁˌvaɪ̯sːe̝n]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːʁˌvæɪ̯sːe̝n]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sən]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈveːɐ̯ˌvaɪ̯sn̩]",
"tags": [
"Standard-German-of-Switzerland"
]
},
{
"audio": "De-werweissen.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/De-werweissen.ogg/De-werweissen.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/De-werweissen.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "rare and primarily outside of Switzerland and Liechtenstein",
"word": "werweißen"
}
],
"word": "werweissen"
}
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