widersprechen
German
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German widarsprechan, widarsprehhan, from Proto-West Germanic *wiþrasprekan, equivalent to wider- + sprechen. Related to English withspeak.
Pronunciation
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Verb
widersprechen (class 4 strong, third-person singular present widerspricht, past tense widersprach, past participle widersprochen, past subjunctive widerspräche, auxiliary haben)
- to object
- to contradict
- (reflexive) to be contradictory
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- Widersprechen
- Widersprecher
- Widersprechung
- Widerspruch
Further reading
- “widersprechen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “widersprechen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “widersprechen” in Duden online
- “widersprechen” in OpenThesaurus.de
- “widersprechen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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