"Pflicht" meaning in German

See Pflicht in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /p͡flɪçt/ [standard], /flɪçt/ (note: northern and central Germany) Audio: De-Pflicht.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪçt Etymology: From Old High German pfliht, from Proto-West Germanic *plihti. Cognate with English plight, Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). Etymology templates: {{inh|de|goh|pfliht}} Old High German pfliht, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*plihti}} Proto-West Germanic *plihti, {{cog|en|plight}} English plight, {{cog|sco|plicht||responsibility, plight}} Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), {{cog|nl|plicht}} Dutch plicht, {{cog|nds|Plicht||duty}} Low German Plicht (“duty”), {{cog|da|pligt||duty}} Danish pligt (“duty”), {{cog|yi|פֿליכט}} Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht) Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Pflicht f (genitive Pflicht, plural Pflichten) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Pflicht [genitive], Pflichten [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Pflicht [nominative, singular], Pflichten [definite, nominative, plural], Pflicht [genitive, singular], Pflichten [definite, genitive, plural], Pflicht [dative, singular], Pflichten [dative, definite, plural], Pflicht [accusative, singular], Pflichten [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. duty Tags: feminine Related terms: verpflichtet [adjective], Verpflichtung [noun], beipflichten [verb], entpflichten [verb], pflichten [verb], verpflichten [verb]
    Sense id: en-Pflicht-de-noun-m7CZFLEX Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Hyponyms: Angebotspflicht, Aufsichtspflicht, Beaufsichtigungspflicht, Berichtspflicht, Fürsorgepflicht, Haftpflicht, Herausgabepflicht, Impfpflicht, Meldepflicht, Mitwirkungspflicht, Nachhaltigkeitspflicht, Rechenschaftspflicht, Schulpflicht, Schweigepflicht, Spritzpflicht, Unterhaltspflicht, Versorgungspflicht, Vorsorgepflicht, Wehrpflicht Derived forms: pflichtbewusst [adjective], pflichtgemäß [adjective], pflichtig [adjective], pflichtmäßig [adjective], pflichtschuldig [adjective], pflichtvergessen [adjective], pflichtversichert [adjective], pflichtwidrig [adjective], Pflichtbewusstsein [noun], Pflichterfüllung [noun], Pflichtgefühl [noun], Pflichtlektüre [noun], Pflichtschule [noun], Pflichtteil [noun], in die Pflicht nehmen [verb]

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "pfliht"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German pfliht",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*plihti"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *plihti",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "plight"
      },
      "expansion": "English plight",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "plicht",
        "3": "",
        "4": "responsibility, plight"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "plicht"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch plicht",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Plicht",
        "3": "",
        "4": "duty"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Plicht (“duty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "pligt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "duty"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish pligt (“duty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "פֿליכט"
      },
      "expansion": "Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German pfliht, from Proto-West Germanic *plihti. Cognate with English plight, Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Pflicht f (genitive Pflicht, plural Pflichten)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtbewusst"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtgemäß"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtig"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtmäßig"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtschuldig"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtvergessen"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtversichert"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "pflichtwidrig"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichtbewusstsein"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichterfüllung"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichtgefühl"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichtlektüre"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichtschule"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Pflichtteil"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "in die Pflicht nehmen"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "duty"
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "Angebotspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Aufsichtspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Beaufsichtigungspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Berichtspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Fürsorgepflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Haftpflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Herausgabepflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Impfpflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Meldepflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Mitwirkungspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Nachhaltigkeitspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Rechenschaftspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Schulpflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Schweigepflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Spritzpflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Unterhaltspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Versorgungspflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Vorsorgepflicht"
        },
        {
          "word": "Wehrpflicht"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-Pflicht-de-noun-m7CZFLEX",
      "links": [
        [
          "duty",
          "duty"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "verpflichtet"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "Verpflichtung"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "beipflichten"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "entpflichten"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "pflichten"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "verpflichten"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/p͡flɪçt/",
      "tags": [
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/flɪçt/",
      "note": "northern and central Germany"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Pflicht.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/De-Pflicht.ogg/De-Pflicht.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/De-Pflicht.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪçt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "flicht stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pflicht"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtbewusst"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtgemäß"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtig"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtmäßig"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtschuldig"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtvergessen"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtversichert"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "pflichtwidrig"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichtbewusstsein"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichterfüllung"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichtgefühl"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichtlektüre"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichtschule"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Pflichtteil"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "in die Pflicht nehmen"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "pfliht"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German pfliht",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*plihti"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *plihti",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "plight"
      },
      "expansion": "English plight",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "plicht",
        "3": "",
        "4": "responsibility, plight"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "plicht"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch plicht",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "Plicht",
        "3": "",
        "4": "duty"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German Plicht (“duty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "pligt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "duty"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish pligt (“duty”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yi",
        "2": "פֿליכט"
      },
      "expansion": "Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old High German pfliht, from Proto-West Germanic *plihti. Cognate with English plight, Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflicht",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Pflichten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Pflicht f (genitive Pflicht, plural Pflichten)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "Angebotspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Aufsichtspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Beaufsichtigungspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Berichtspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fürsorgepflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Haftpflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Herausgabepflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Impfpflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Meldepflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Mitwirkungspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Nachhaltigkeitspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Rechenschaftspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Schulpflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Schweigepflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Spritzpflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Unterhaltspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Versorgungspflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Vorsorgepflicht"
    },
    {
      "word": "Wehrpflicht"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "verpflichtet"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Verpflichtung"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "beipflichten"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "entpflichten"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "pflichten"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "verpflichten"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German feminine nouns",
        "German lemmas",
        "German nouns",
        "German terms derived from Old High German",
        "German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "German terms inherited from Old High German",
        "German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "German terms with homophones",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:German/ɪçt",
        "Rhymes:German/ɪçt/1 syllable"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "duty"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "duty",
          "duty"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/p͡flɪçt/",
      "tags": [
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/flɪçt/",
      "note": "northern and central Germany"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Pflicht.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/De-Pflicht.ogg/De-Pflicht.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/De-Pflicht.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪçt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "flicht stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pflicht"
}

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