angenehm
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]an + genehm, from Old High German nami,[1] ultimately from the same root as nehmen. Compare Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, “salutations (to you)”) for similar semantic development from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʔanɡəˌneːm/, [ˈʔaŋɡəˌneːm] (Germany)
- IPA(key): /ˈanɡeˌneːm/, [-ɡ̊e-] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
- Hyphenation: an‧ge‧nehm
Adjective
[edit]angenehm (strong nominative masculine singular angenehmer, comparative angenehmer, superlative am angenehmsten)
- pleasant, pleasing
- short for 'pleased to meet you'
- Angenehm, Ihre Bekanntschaft zu machen. ― ([It is] pleasant to make your acquaintance.
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of angenehm
Comparative forms of angenehm
Superlative forms of angenehm
Antonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “angenehm” in Duden online
- “angenehm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “angenehm” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “angenehm” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “angenehm”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891