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entgehen

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German

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Etymology

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From ent- +‎ gehen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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entgehen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present entgeht, past tense entging, past participle entgangen, auxiliary sein)

  1. to slip past (someone)
  2. (transitive) to escape notice [with dative ‘to someone’]
    Du weißt ja gar nicht was dir entgeht.
    You really don’t know what you’re missing.

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • entgehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • entgehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • entgehen” in Duden online
  • entgehen” in OpenThesaurus.de