"Hilfe" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhɪlfə/ Audio: De-at-Hilfe.ogg [Austria], De-Hilfe.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German helfe, hilfe, from Old High German helfa, hilfa, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *helpō, *hilpiz (“help”), from Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”). Among the three Middle High German variants helfe, hilfe, hülfe, the i-form is phonetically intermediate, but in Modern German the northern Hülfe was long predominant. Hilfe was supported, however, by the parallelism with du hilfst, er hilft, and was declared the exclusive standard during the spelling reforms of the early 20th century. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|helfe}} Middle High German helfe, {{m|gmh|hilfe}} hilfe, {{inh|de|goh|helfa}} Old High German helfa, {{m|goh|hilfa}} hilfa, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|}} Proto-West Germanic [Term?], {{inh|de|gem-pro|*helpō}} Proto-Germanic *helpō, {{m|gem-pro|*hilpiz|t=help}} *hilpiz (“help”), {{der|de|gem-pro|*helpaną|t=to help}} Proto-Germanic *helpaną (“to help”), {{der|de|ine-pro|*ḱelb-}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, {{m|ine-pro|*ḱelp-|t=to help}} *ḱelp- (“to help”), {{m|de||helfe, hilfe, hülfe}} helfe, hilfe, hülfe, {{m|de|Hülfe}} Hülfe, {{m|de||Hilfe}} Hilfe, {{m|de||du hilfst, er hilft}} du hilfst, er hilft Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Hilfe f (genitive Hilfe, plural Hilfen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Hilfe [genitive], Hilfen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Hilfe [nominative, singular], Hilfen [definite, nominative, plural], Hilfe [genitive, singular], Hilfen [definite, genitive, plural], Hilfe [dative, singular], Hilfen [dative, definite, plural], Hilfe [accusative, singular], Hilfen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. help, aid
    (usually uncountable) the act of helping, assistance
    Tags: feminine, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-Hilfe-de-noun-LDPUBJID Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 62 38
  2. help, aid
    (countable) a thing or person that helps
    Tags: countable, feminine
    Sense id: en-Hilfe-de-noun-UucypdWx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Hülfe (english: used in variation until the early 20th century) [obsolete] Derived forms: hilflos, Winterhilfe

Inflected forms

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          "help",
          "help"
        ],
        [
          "aid",
          "aid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "help, aid",
        "(countable) a thing or person that helps"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪlfə/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-at-Hilfe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/De-at-Hilfe.ogg/De-at-Hilfe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/De-at-Hilfe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Austria"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Austria)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Hilfe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ed/De-Hilfe.ogg/De-Hilfe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/De-Hilfe.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "used in variation until the early 20th century",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Hülfe"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hilfe"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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