fürwahr
ADV · German
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
German is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 30 source-backed words in German. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: forsooth, for sure, indeed From a source of medium confidence.
dated · literary
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- Fürwahr! er dient euch auf besondre Weise. / Nicht irdisch ist des Thoren Trank noch Speise. In truth! He serves you in a peculiar manner. / There’s no earthly food or drink at that fool’s dinner. 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Prolog im Himmel”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]:
- Zum Abschied hat sie das Büchlein „Berlin? Ja, wir hatten mal was“ verfasst, „eine Abrechnung“, wie es im Untertitel heißt. Und das ist es fürwahr. 2024 March 18, Andreas Hartmann, “Überall nur Pisse, Kotze und Unrat”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
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Etymology: From Middle High German vür + wār, by surface analysis, für + wahr. Compare similarly formed zwar. From a source of medium confidence.
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