"nicht" meaning in German

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Adverb

IPA: /nɪçt/, [nɪçt] (note: predominant), [niçt] (note: Bavaria; parts of Austria; Ruhrgebiet), [nɪxt], [nixt], [-χt] (note: Switzerland; parts of Austria), [nɪɕt], [nəɕt], [-ʃt] (note: parts of central Germany), /nɪç/ (note: common speech; quasi-standard in northern and central Germany; alternations as above) Audio: De-nicht.ogg , De-nicht2.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪçt, -ɪç Etymology: From Middle High German niwiht, niweht, niht, a contracted form of Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“being, creature”), the last from Proto-Germanic *wihtą. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|niwiht}} Middle High German niwiht, {{inh|de|goh|niowiht}} Old High German niowiht, {{der|de|gem-pro|*wihtą}} Proto-Germanic *wihtą Head templates: {{head|de|adverb||||am {{{2}}}|head=|sort=}} nicht, {{de-adv}} nicht
  1. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb) Derived forms (nichtig): Nichtigkeit
    Sense id: en-nicht-de-adv-D91LR9RL Categories (other): Pages with entries, West Frisian entries with incorrect language header, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 1 5 11 1 38 39 2 1 1 1 Disambiguation of West Frisian entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 3 24 12 0 19 25 2 2 1 5 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 98 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nich, nich' (english: reflecting the common pronunciation) [informal] [writing, journalism, literature, communications, publishing, media], net, nit [Austria, Southern-Germany, colloquial, southern-Germany]

Interjection

IPA: /nɪçt/, [nɪçt] (note: predominant), [niçt] (note: Bavaria; parts of Austria; Ruhrgebiet), [nɪxt], [nixt], [-χt] (note: Switzerland; parts of Austria), [nɪɕt], [nəɕt], [-ʃt] (note: parts of central Germany), /nɪç/ (note: common speech; quasi-standard in northern and central Germany; alternations as above) Audio: De-nicht.ogg , De-nicht2.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪçt, -ɪç Etymology: From Middle High German niwiht, niweht, niht, a contracted form of Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“being, creature”), the last from Proto-Germanic *wihtą. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|niwiht}} Middle High German niwiht, {{inh|de|goh|niowiht}} Old High German niowiht, {{der|de|gem-pro|*wihtą}} Proto-Germanic *wihtą Head templates: {{head|de|interjection|head=nicht?}} nicht?
  1. (tag question, dated or formal) right?; is it?; is it not? Tags: dated, formal Synonyms: gell, ne, nicht wahr, oder, oder nicht, wa
    Sense id: en-nicht-de-intj-Bjjycp87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: nich, nich' (english: reflecting the common pronunciation) [informal] [writing, journalism, literature, communications, publishing, media], net, nit [Austria, Southern-Germany, colloquial, southern-Germany]

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.