etwa
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Superseded etwan in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]etwa
- approximately
- Synonym: in etwa
- for instance
- Synonyms: beispielsweise, zum Beispiel
- 2022 October 28, “Twitter-Übernahme von Musk: Die Rechten feiern und fordern Trump zurück”, in Der Spiegel[1], →ISSN:
- Etwa AfD-Politikerin Beatrix von Storch twitterte: »Das linke woke Paralleluniversum wackelt.«
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- by any chance
- (modal) really (expresses the expectation of a negative answer)
- Willst du etwa schon gehen?
- Do you really want to leave so soon?
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “etwa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Nzadi
[edit]Noun
[edit]etwâ (plural atwâ)
Noun
[edit]etwâ (plural etwâ)
Further reading
[edit]- Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN